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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Jeremiah 28:15

Jeremiah being a second time confirmed in the truth of his revelation, and having likewise a special revelation relating to this false prophet, comes now and tells him his doom, viz. that he should die within a year, because he had taught people to believe, and to hope for, and trust to what was false, and they were never like to see.

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See also Jeremiah 28:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 28:15. _HEAR NOW, HANANIAH; THE LORD HATH NOT SENT THEE_] This was a bold speech in the presence of those priests and people who were prejudiced in favour of this false prophet, who pro...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 28 _ 1. Hananiah, the false prophet (Jeremiah 28:1) _ 2. The judgment of Hananiah (Jeremiah 28:12) Jeremiah 28:1. One of these lying prophets became very bold, and declared that he had

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 28. THE PROPHECY AND FATE OF HANANIAH. Whilst Jeremiah still wears the symbolic yoke (Jeremiah 27:2), his testimony concerning it is opposed by another prophet, Hananiah of Gibeon (5 m. NW. o...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOT SENT THEE. The test applied (Deuteronomy 18:21; Deuteronomy 18:22). TRUST. confide....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah's emphatic contradiction of Hananiah's forecast....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. _The final word to Hananiah_ (Jeremiah 28:12-17) TRANSLATION (12) And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had shattered the yoke from upon the neck of Jeremiah the p...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. THOU MAKEST THIS PEOPLE TO TRUST IN A LIE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-11. Opposition of Hananiah and the false prophets....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HEAR NOW, HANANIAH... — The narrative leaves the time and place of the interview uncertain, but suggests an interval of some days between it and the scene in the Temple court just narrated. In the str...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֧ה הַ נָּבִ֛יא אֶל ־חֲנַנ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IX HANANIAH Jeremiah 27:1, Jeremiah 28:1 "Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie."- Jeremiah 28:15 THE most conspicuous point at issu

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This and the following chapter have to do with the direct relations between Jeremiah and the false prophets against whom Jeremiah so solemnly warned Zedekiah. In this chapter we have the account of th...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Behold Reader! what holy boldness the Lord imparts to his faithful servants. It doth not appear by what was said in the former verses, when the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, that it was revealed...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    There would not have been weight enough in the plain teaching of Jeremiah had he not confronted his adversary, as the case is at this day with us; when insolent and unprincipled men rise up and dare t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 AND 28. Chapter s 27 and 28 go together. Their chief subject is the submission to the head of the Gentiles, which God requires of the Jews. But before dwel...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SAID JEREMIAH THE PROPHET UNTO HANANIAH THE PROPHET,.... The false prophet, as he is again called by the Targum, and in the Syriac version; where he went to him, and met with him, whether in the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. Ver. 15. _Thou makest this people to trust in...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then said Jeremiah, Hear now, Hananiah_ Jeremiah, being a second time confirmed in the truth of what he had foretold, and having likewise a special revelation relating to this false prophet, comes an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE REBUKE GIVEN TO HANANIAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah, the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: The Lord hath not sent thee, thus confronting the false prophet with his base deception; BUT THOU MAKEST THIS PEOPLE TO T...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-17 Hananiah is sentenced to die, and Jeremiah, when he has received direction from God, boldly tells him so; but not before he received that commission. Those have much to answer for, who tell sin...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 28:15 prophet H5030 Jeremiah H3414 said H559 (H8799) Hananiah H2608 prophet H5030 Hear H8085 (H8798) Ha

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HANANIAH, A CULT PROPHET, DECLARES THAT THERE WILL BE FULL LIBERATION WITHIN TWO YEARS, AND BREAKS JEREMIAH'S YOKE FROM ROUND HIS NECK. JEREMIAH REPLIES THAT HIS OWN WORD FROM YHWH WILL COME TRUE AND...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the yokes, continued. False prophecy and death of Hananiah. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Hananiah, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeconiah. CONCLUSION: Those have a great deal to answer for who...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 28:1. _In the beginning._ The LXX read, the fourth year of Zedekiah. _Hananiah,_ by education and profession, _the prophet._ Good men may teach and preach, though their learning be small, yet...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 28:12 God says that Hananiah’s prophecy turns the YOKE-BARS of surrender into a yoke of devastation by leading people to ignore God’s advice to surrender to NEBUCHADNEZZAR ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER, &C., _vide_ preceding chapter. The words (Jeremiah 28:1). “_In the beginning_ of the reign,” and immediately described as “in the _fourth...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Hananiah's false prophecy; his reprimand from Jeremiah; and his fate. The preciseness of the date in verse 1 is to emphasize the supernatural character of Jeremiah's prediction. The latter...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 28: And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, wh...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 22:23; Ezekiel 13:2; Ezekiel 13:22; Ezekiel 13:3; Ezekiel 2

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