Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 28:1
The fourth year — Perhaps the fourth year of the sabbatical course is here intended. Of Gibeon — it is probable from the place where he lived, which was one of the cities of the priests; that he was a priest.
The fourth year — Perhaps the fourth year of the sabbatical course is here intended. Of Gibeon — it is probable from the place where he lived, which was one of the cities of the priests; that he was a priest.
CHAPTER XXVIII _One of those pretended prophets spoken of on the preceding_ _chapter, having contrasted and opposed Jeremiah, receives an_ _awful declaration that, as a proof to the people of his h...
IN THE BEGINNING ... ZEDEKIAH - Probably a gloss put into the margin to explain “the same year,” from where it has crept into the text. GIBEON - A city of priests Joshua 21:17. Hananiah was probably a...
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
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...
THE SAME YEAR. As Jeremiah 27:12, when Jeremiah spoke to Zedekiah; not Jeremiah 27:1, when he _received_ the message which was to be delivered. The same year in which Jeremiah had counseled Zedekiah n...
_in the beginning, etc_.] See on Jeremiah 27:1. If, as seems likely, the utterance of Hananiah which follows was on the same day on which Jeremiah appeared in public, wearing a yoke on his neck (Jerem...
AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME YEAR— Houbigant very properly renders this, _It was the fourth year of the reign of Zedekiah; in that year, in the fifth month,_ &c. _Hananiah,_ &c.—for otherwise, it is i...
E. A Warning to the False prophets Jeremiah 28:1-17 Alongside of the genuine prophet in ancient Israel the counterfeit prophet arose. The appearance of such fakes had been anticipated in the law of Mo...
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, which was of Gibeon,...
1-11. Opposition of Hananiah and the false prophets....
XXVIII. (1) AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME YEAR... — The chapter stands in immediate sequence with that which precedes and confirms the conclusion that the name Jehoiakim in Jeremiah 27:1 is simply a tr...
וַ יְהִ֣י ׀ בַּ † שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ הִ֗יא...
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
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...
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the (a) reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the (b) fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who [was]...
Juda. So far Sanctius joins with the former chapter, improperly. In the 4th year, seems rather an interpolation; though the Septuagint omit in the beginning, &c., to reconcile the passage; and others...
CONTENTS In the preceding Chapter the false prophets were generally spoken of, in their making the people to trust in lies. In this we have an example of one more impudent and bold than his fellows....
I hardly know anything in scripture more striking, and what tends to interest the feelings of the Reader more sensibly, than this short but affecting Chapter. The Prophet Jeremiah knew himself to have...
The Prophet relates here with what haughtiness, and even fury, the false prophet Hananiah came forward to deceive the people and to proclaim his trumperies, when yet he must have been conscious of his...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME YEAR,.... That the prophet was bid to make yokes and bonds, and send them to the neighbouring kings, whose ambassadors were in Zedekiah's court; and when he spoke the thin...
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, which [was] of Gi...
_And it came to pass the same year_ Namely, the same in which the preceding prophecy was delivered; for the words manifestly refer to the time specified at the beginning of the foregoing chapter, and...
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, that is, in the first half of his reign, after he had become fully established in his position, IN THE FOUR...
HANANIAH'S FALSE PROPHECY...
1-9 Hananiah spoke a false prophecy. Here is not a word of good counsel urging the Jews to repent and return to God. He promises temporal mercies, in God's name, but makes no mention of the spiritual...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 28 Hananiah's false prophecy: Jeremiah's answer, JEREMIAH 28:1. Hananiah breaketh Jeremiah's yoke: he foretelleth an iron yoke, and Hananiah's death, JEREMIAH 28:10. Here is a great a...
Jeremiah 28:1 year H8141 beginning H7225 reign H4467 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 Judah H3063 fourth H7243 year H8141
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...
FIFTH MONTH That is, August....
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 28:1 GIBEON. A town 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Jerusalem. Thus, HANANIAH, like Jeremiah, lived in the territory of Benjamin ...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:28; Jeremiah 27:1; Jeremiah 28:11; J