6 Jeremiah answered, "The Lord gave me a message, saying: 7 Your cousin Hanamel, son of Shallum, is coming to tell you, ‘Why don’t you buy my field in Anathoth because you have the right to redeem it and buy it?’
8 Just as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel arrived to see me in the guard’s courtyard and asked me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin because you have the right of family ownership to redeem it.32:8. In order to keep land ownership in the family, relatives had the right of "first refusal" when another family member was forced to sell their land. See Leviticus 25:25-28. You should buy it for yourself.’" This convinced me that this was a message from the Lord.
9 So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver to pay him.
24 Look at the siege ramps piled up against the city to capture it! Through war and famine and disease, the city will be taken by the Babylonians who are attacking it. You can see that everything you said would happen has happened.
25 Yet, Lord God, you have told me, ‘Buy yourself the field with silver in front of witnesses, even though the city has been handed over to the Babylonians!’"
26 Then the Lord gave Jeremiah this message: 27 Look! I am the Lord, the God of everyone. Is anything too hard for me to do?