Jeremiah 28:1

And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year in the fifth month, that Hananiah son of Azzur the prophet who was of Gibeon, spake unto me, in the house of Yahweh, before the eyes of the priests and all the people, saying:

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In The King James Version

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, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

In Context

2Thus speaketh Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel saying,—I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon:

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Cross References

Joshua 9:3Now, the inhabitants of Gibeon, heard that which Joshua had done unto Jericho and unto Ai;

Jeremiah 23:28The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him relate it as a dream, And he with whom is my word, Let him speak my word as truth,—What is the chaff to the wheat? Demandeth Yahweh:

Jeremiah 27:3Then shalt thou send them unto the king of Edom and unto the king of Moab and unto the king of the sons of Ammon, and unto the king of Tyre and unto the king of Zidon,—by the hand of messengers coming into Jerusalem, unto Zedekiah king of Judah.

Jeremiah 28:5Then said Jeremiah the prophet, unto Hananiah the prophet, in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people, who were standing in the house of Yahweh,

Jeremiah 29:15Because ye have said,—Yahweh hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.

Jeremiah 37:13And so it came to pass he being in the gate of Benjamin and there being there a ward-master whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah son of Hananiah, that he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Unto the Chaldeans, art thou falling away!

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 28:1

In the foregoing chapter Jeremiah had charged those prophets with lies who foretold the speedy breaking of the yoke of the king of Babylon and the speedy return of the vessels of the sanctuary; how here we have his contest with a particular prophet upon those heads. I. Hananiah, a pretender to prophecy, in contradiction to Jeremiah, foretold the sinking of Nebuchadnezzar's power and the return both of the persons and of the vessels that were carried away ( ver. 1-4 ), and, as a sign of this, he broke the yoke from… Read the whole commentary →

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