Jeremiah 32:7

Good News Translation

that Hanamel, my uncle Shallum's son, would come to me with the request to buy his field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin, because I was his nearest relative and had the right to buy it for myself.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:5

The Lord had told him that Jeroboam's wife was coming to ask him about her son, who was sick. And the Lord told Ahijah what to say. When Jeroboam's wife arrived, she pretended to be someone else.

Jeremiah 1:1

This book is the account of what was said by Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests of the town of Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

Jeremiah 11:21

The people of Anathoth wanted me killed, and they told me that they would kill me if I kept on proclaiming the Lord's message.

Jeremiah 32:6

The Lord told me

Jeremiah 32:8

Then, just as the Lord had said, Hanamel came to me there in the courtyard and asked me to buy the field. So I knew that the Lord had really spoken to me.

Leviticus 25:23

Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it.

Leviticus 25:24

When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized.

Leviticus 25:25

If any of you Israelites become poor and are forced to sell your land, your closest relative is to buy it back.

Leviticus 25:34

But the pasture land around the Levite cities shall never be sold; it is their property forever.

Leviticus 25:49

or an uncle or a cousin or another close relative may buy them back; or if they themselves earn enough, they may buy their own freedom.

Numbers 35:2

“Tell the Israelites that from the property they receive they must give the Levites some cities to live in and pasture land around the cities.