Jeremiah 28:17

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

In Context

16'Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken perversion against the LORD.'

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Cross References

2 Kings 7:20it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

Jeremiah 23:31Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues and say: 'He saith.'

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 28:11-17

Hananiah Condemned. ( b. c. 597.) 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. 12 Then the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of… Read the whole commentary →

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