1Ki 22:6, 13, Jer 5:31, 9:2, 28:1-4, 37:19, Hos 5:11, Amo 7:10-13, Mic 6:16 | TSK | STEP | the prophets together. Go up. the Lord.This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te Æacida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."

1 Kings 22:6

the prophets together.

Go up.

15,22,23; 2Ch 18:14; Jer 5:31; 8:10,11; 14:13,14; 23:14-17

Jer 28:1-9; Eze 13:7-16,22; Mt 7:15; 2Pe 2:1-3; Re 19:20

the Lord.This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te Æacida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."

1 Kings 22:13

Behold now.

Ps 10:11; 11:1; 14:1; 50:21; Isa 30:10,11; Ho 7:3; Am 7:13-17

Mic 2:6,7,11; 1Co 2:14-16

Jeremiah 5:31

prophets.

14:14; 23:25,26; La 2:14; Eze 13:6; Mic 3:11; Mt 7:15-17

2Co 11:13-15; 2Pe 2:1,2

bear rule. or, take into their hands. my people.

Isa 30:10,11; Mic 2:6,11; Joh 3:19-21; 2Th 2:9-11; 2Ti 4:3,4

and what.

4:30,31; 22:22,23; De 32:29; Isa 10:3; 20:6; 33:14; La 1:9; Eze 22:14

Zep 2:2,3

Jeremiah 9:2

that I had.

Ps 55:6-8; 120:5-7; Mic 7:1-7

for.

5:7,8; 23:10; Eze 22:10,11; Ho 4:2; 7:4; Jas 4:4

an assembly.

12:1,6; Ho 5:7; 6:7; Mic 7:2-5; Zep 3:4; Mal 2:11

Jeremiah 28:1-4

1 Hananiah prophesies falsely the return of the vessels, and of Jeconiah.

5 Jeremiah, wishing it to be true, shews that the event will declare the true prophets.

10 Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke.

12 Jeremiah tells of an iron yoke;

15 and foretells Hananiah's death.

the same.

27:1

Hananiah.

11; 36:12; 37:13

the prophet.

23:28; Isa 9:15; Zec 13:2-4

27:2-12; Eze 13:5-16; Mic 3:11

two full years. Heb. two years of days.

Ge 47:9,28; Ps 90:10

all the.

27:16-22

that.

2Ki 24:13; 2Ch 36:10; Da 1:2

I will bring.This was doubtless grateful news to the people, who looked upon Zedekiah only as Nebuchadnezzar's deputy. Hananiah seems to have been more desirous of popular than regal favour; for this prediction could not be altogether agreeable to Zedekiah. But he was evidently a weak as well as a wicked prince, and very generally despised.

Jeconiah.

22:24,28

Coniah

24:1; 52:31-34; 2Ki 25:27-30

Jehoiachin. captives. Heb. captivity.

24:5; *marg:

I will break.

2,10; 2:20; 30:8; Ge 27:40; Isa 9:4; Na 1:13