Jeremiah 28:1

in the beginning, etc.] See on Jeremiah 27:1. If, as seems likely, the utterance of Hananiah which follows was on the same day on which Jeremiah appeared in public, wearing a yoke on his neck (Jeremiah 27:2), and that the messengers from abroad (ib. 3) had not yet departed, we can realise the effect which Hananiah's words of direct contradiction to Jeremiah's forecast (ib. 16) would produce.

Hananiah one of the prophets of the national party, whose unauthorized predictions of peace and safety were among the severest trials to which Jeremiah had to submit. For the relation of the false to the true prophets see Intr. pp. xxxii. f.; Jeremiah 23:9; Jeremiah 29:8-9; Jeremiah 29:31-32. Cp. Ezekiel 13.

Gibeon El Jib, about five miles N.W. of Jerusalem. It was one of the cities of the priests (Joshua 21:17).