Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 39

This is a scholarly biblical parallel text presenting Jeremiah chapters 32 and 39 in three simultaneous columns: the King James Version (with interleaved Strong's concordance reference numbers), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), and the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh). The narrative content covers the Babylonian siege and fall of Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, including King Zedekiah's capture, blinding, and deportation, plus the destruction of the city and deportation of its people. A central episode is Jeremiah's purchase of a field at Anathoth — a deliberate symbolic act performed while Jerusalem is falling, functioning as a prophetic enacted sign that normal life and land ownership will eventually resume. The text then pivots to divine speeches promising future restoration: God will gather the exiles, plant them in their land, and establish an everlasting covenant, giving them a new heart to fear him. The distinctively notable feature for scholars is that the LXX column represents a substantially different textual tradition — the Septuagint Jeremiah is roughly one-eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges material in a different sequence, which is visible in the column divergences here. This format is designed for source-critical and text-critical study, enabling direct comparison of the ancient Greek translation against its Hebrew Vorlage and the English rendering.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 39

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