Jer 5:12-13, 6:15, 8:12, 20:6, 23:14-15, 28:15-17, 29:20-21, 31-32 | TSK | STEP

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.

Jeremiah 29:20-21

hear.Dr. Blayney thinks there were two letters written by the prophet to the captives in Babylon, and the first ends with this verse. That having heard, on the return of the embassy, that the captives had received his advices favourably, and because they were deceived by false prophets, who promised them a speedier deliverance, he therefore wrote a second letter, beginning with the fifteenth verse, and going on with the twenty-first, etc. (in which order these verses are read in the Septuagint,) in which he denounces God's judgments on the three chief of those, Ahab, Zedekiah, and Shemaiah.

all ye.

Eze 3:11,15

whom.

24:5; Mic 4:10

which.

8,9; 14:14,15; La 2:14