FACT CHECK · THEOLOGY: LAND AND COVENANT
Claim: Ownership ends once you're conquered
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Under Babylon's siege, Jeremiah buys his cousin's field: "the right of inheritance is thine" (32:8). God tells him: "fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land" (32:15).
SOURCE
Sefaria, JPS 1917: Jeremiah 32
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