2Ch 18:5, 12-17, Isa 30:10-11, Jer 8:10-11, 23:17, 28:1-9, 15-17 | TSK | STEP

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

the house.

1; 7:2; 19:14; 26:2

Amen.

Nu 5:22; De 27:15-26; 1Ki 1:36; 1Ch 16:36; Ps 41:13; 72:19; 89:52

Ps 106:48; Mt 6:13; 28:20; 1Co 14:16; 2Co 1:20; Re 1:18; 3:14; 5:14

Re 19:4; 22:20,21

the Lord perform.

3; 11:5; 17:16; 18:20

1Ki 22:28

The prophets.As Hosea, Joel, Amos, Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and others, all of whom had denounced similar evils against a corrupt people. So that they who opposed Jeremiah also opposed those who preceded him; and it was altogether unprecedented for a true prophet to promise deliverance to a guilty nation, without calling them to repentance.

prophesied.

Le 26:14-46; De 4:26,27; 28:15-68; 29:18-28; 31:16,17; 32:15-44

1Sa 2:27-32; 3:11-14; 1Ki 14:7-15; 17:1; 21:18-24; 22:8; Isa 5:1-8

Isa 6:9-12; 13:18; 24:1-23; Joe 1:2-20; 3:1-11; Mic 3:8-12

Na 1:1-3:19; Am 1:2

which.

4:10; 6:14; 8:11; 14:13; Eze 13:10,16

then.

De 18:22; Eze 13:10-16

Jeremiah 28:15-17

The Lord.This was a bold speech, in the presence of those priests and people who were prejudiced in favour of the false prophets, who prophesied to them smooth things.

11; 14:14,15; 23:21; 27:15; 29:23,31,32; 1Ki 22:23; Eze 13:2,3,22

Eze 22:28; La 2:14; Zec 13:3

I will.

Ge 7:4; Ex 32:12; De 6:15; 1Ki 13:34; Am 9:8

this year.

3; 20:6; Nu 14:37; 16:28-35; 29:32; De 13:5-11

because.

Eze 13:11,12; Ac 13:8-11

rebellion. Heb. revolt.

29:32; De 13:5; *margins

Hananiah.

Isa 44:25,26; Zec 1:6

the seventh month.The prophecy was delivered in the fifth month, (ver. 1,) and Hananiah died in the seventh month; exactly two months after he had delivered his false prophecy, which he declared, in the name of God, would be fulfilled in two years. Here then the true prophet was demonstrated, and the false prophet detected. The death of Hananiah, thus predicted, was God's seal to the words of His prophet, and must have gained his other predictions great credit among the people; though it is evident that it did not induce them to forsake their sins and return to the God of Israel.