Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 28:8
Verse Jeremiah 28:8. The prophets that have been before me] Namely, Joel, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and others; all of whom denounced similar evils against a corrupt people.
Verse Jeremiah 28:8. The prophets that have been before me] Namely, Joel, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and others; all of whom denounced similar evils against a corrupt people.
Jeremiah’s own wishes concurred with Hananiah’s prediction, but asserts that that prediction was at variance with the language of the older prophets. Jeremiah 28:9 THEN SHALL THE PROPHET ... - Or, “...
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...
EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "famine". Compare Jeremiah 27:8, and Jeremiah 29:17....
The passage forms an important aid to our grasping of the real nature of O.T. prophecy. True prophets did not flatter with promises of good fortune, seeing that their aim was to preach repentance and...
THE PROPHETS THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE ME— Namely, Joel, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habbakuk, and others. Jeremiah offers two reason's in defence of his own prophesies, and against those of Han...
2. _The response of Jeremiah_ (Jeremiah 28:5-9) TRANSLATION (5) Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the hou...
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. THE PROPHETS THAT HAVE BEEN...
28:8 concerning (a-15) Or 'against.'...
1-11. Opposition of Hananiah and the false prophets....
THE PROPHETS THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE ME AND BEFORE THEE... — The appeal to the past is of the nature of an inductive argument. The older prophets whose names were held in honour had not spoken smooth th...
הַ נְּבִיאִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר הָי֧וּ לְ פָנַ֛י וּ
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...
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old (f) prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. (f) Meaning, that the proph...
It is hardly possible to conceive, what were the feelings of Jeremiah upon this occasion. He could not indeed, but know in himself, that what Hananiah had said, must be false; but yet from the natural...
But he makes here only a general statement, _The Prophets who have been before, me and thee, and prophesied against many _(or great) _lands, and against great kingdoms, have prophesied of war, and of...
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...
THE PROPHETS THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE ME, AND BEFORE THEE OF OLD,.... Such as Isaiah, Hoses, Joel, Amos, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and others: these PROPHESIED BOTH AGAINST MANY COUNTRIES AND A...
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. Ver. 8. _The prophets that hav...
_The Prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so!_ Thereby expressing his hearty concern for the good of his nation, and wishing that God would repent him of the evil wherewith he had threatened them...
HANANIAH'S FALSE PROPHECY...
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old, as Isaiah, Joel, Hosea, Amos, and others, PROPHESIED BOTH AGAINST MANY COUNTRIES AND AGAINST GREAT KINGDOMS, OF WAR AND OF EVIL, of misfor...
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...
That is, Thou and I are not the first prophets that have foretold to countries and nations the great judgments of God coming upon them, WAR, EVIL, PESTILENCE: by _evil_, some think is to be understood...
Jeremiah 28:8 prophets H5030 before H6440 before H6440 old H5769 prophesied H5012 (H8735) many H7227 countries...
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...
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 28:8 Jeremiah’s point is that PEACE and security is the rarer of the two messages described here. Peace requires repentance (Jeremiah 26
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...
1 Kings 14:7; 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 21:18; 1 Kings 22:8; 1 Samu