_HANANIAH PROPHESIETH FALSELY THE RETURN OF THE VESSELS, AND OF JECONIAH. JEREMIAH, WISHING IT TO BE TRUE, SHEWETH THAT THE EVENT WILL DECLARE WHO ARE TRUE PROPHETS. HANANIAH BREAKETH JEREMIAH'S YOKE. JEREMIAH FORETELLETH OF AN IRON YOKE, AND OF HANANIAH'S DEATH._ _Before Christ 595._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME YEAR— Houbigant very properly renders this, _It was the fourth year of the reign of Zedekiah; in that year, in the fifth month,_ &c. _Hananiah,_ &c.—for otherwise, it is impossible to reconcile the verse to itself. See his note.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMEN: THE LORD DO SO— Jeremiah well knew the falsity of Hananiah's prediction: he testified it by his answer: he would only shew, that if he foretold melancholy things to his country, and if he opposed the false prophets, it was not through malice or envy. "God grant that you may find this man a tru... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PROPHETS THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE ME— Namely, Joel, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habbakuk, and others. Jeremiah offers two reason's in defence of his own prophesies, and against those of Hananiah. _First,_ That many other prophets agreed with him in prophesying evil against the Jews, and o... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS YEAR THOU SHALT DIE— As Hananiah had limited the accomplishment of his prophesy to the space of two years, in order to gain credit with the people by so punctual a prediction; so Jeremiah confines the proof of his veracity to a much shorter time; and the event being exactly conformable, evident... [ Continue Reading ]