5 Zedekiah will be taken to Babylonia, and he will remain there until I deal with him. Even if he fights the Babylonians, he will not be successful. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
6 The Lord told me
7 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.
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.
9 I bought the field from Hanamel and weighed out the money to him; the price came to seventeen pieces of silver.
10 I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the money on scales.
11 Then I took both copies of the deed of purchase — the sealed copy containing the contract and its conditions, and the open copy —