What Does Jeremiah 32:28 Mean in the King James?

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

Jeremiah 32:28 · KJV

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THE KEY

The city is deliberately placed into the conqueror’s hand before he takes it.

THE MEANING

The verse meets you with the terrible moment when a city is placed into a conquering power’s reach. God’s speech declares the handover plainly, and Nebuchadnezzar takes it; the violence is not softened or turned into metaphor.

THE ROOT

נֹתֵן

noten

GROWS FROM

נתן

give, set, place

The root ⁨נתן⁩ (nathan), “give, set, place,” carries more than a transfer: it can describe placing something into another’s possession. Here the city is set into the conqueror’s hand, and the king takes what has been placed there.

ALSO GROWS

mattanah: gift

מַתָּנָה

A gift is something given; this branch shows the root can name both the act of giving and what is placed into another’s possession.

natun: given, set, placed

נָתוּן

This form describes something as placed or assigned, bringing the city’s transfer into focus as an act of placement.

THE PATTERN

To be placed into a hand is to be placed within that power’s reach and rule.

And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

Psalm 106:41 · KJVBeing given into a hand means coming under the rule of the power that holds it.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Romans 1:24 · KJVHere giving takes the form of being handed over to a power that brings harm.

THE THREAD

For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 21:10 · KJV

“Given” here comes from the same root ⁨נתן⁩ (nathan), “give, set, place.” This verse names the handover’s consequence plainly: the king burns the city.

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