Jeremiah 28:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the same year. As Jeremiah 27:12, when Jeremiah spoke to Zedekiah; not Jeremiah 27:1, when he received the message which was to be delivered. The same year in which Jeremiah had counseled Zedekiah not to hearken to the false prophets (Jeremiah 27:14).

Hananiah.. false prophet. Compare Jeremiah 27:12; Jeremiah 27:14.

Gibeon.. city of the priests (Joshua 21:17). Hananiah was therefore probably. priest as Jeremiah was.

in the house. Compare Jeremiah 26:2.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah.

Jeremiah 28:1

1 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,