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Jeremiah said the Jews would buy back land

Jeremiah 32:44

42 "This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.

43 Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, 'It is a desolate waste, without men or animals, for it has been handed over to the Babylonians.'

44 Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD."

(New International Version translation)

Bible passage: Jeremiah 32:44
Prophet: Jeremiah
Written: Sometime between 626-586 BC

In Jeremiah 32, the prophet informs the people of Judah that it is God's will that they be forced into exile by the Babylonians, as punishment for turning away from God, and that fighting against the Babylonians would be useless.

Jeremiah also tells the people that the punishment would be temporary and that the people eventually would return and reclaim their lands within their homeland.

But the means of reclamation, as described in the 32nd chapter of the book of Jeremiah, involved the legal purchase of lands within the Jewish homeland. The means would be different than those used by Joshua when he and the Israelites conquered the land about 800 years earlier.

After the Babylonian Empire fell to a coalition of Medes and Persians, Jews began returning and reclaiming their land, without the use of military force.

Jeremiah's prophecy was fulfilled more than 2000 years ago.

Although beyond the scope of Jeremiah's prophecy, the Romans forced the Jews into exile again. And, in 1901, some of the descendants of the exiles formed the Jewish National Fund to buy land within the ancient land of Israel, in the hopes of re-establishing a Jewish homeland.

When the modern state of Israel was re-established in 1948, there was an estimated 650,000 Jews residing in 305 towns. Of those towns, 233 stood on JNF land, according www.jnf.org, a Web site for the Jewish National Fund.

- Research and commentary by George and Raymond Konig of www.AboutBibleProphecy.com

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