CHAPTER XXVIII

One of those pretended prophets spoken of on the preceding

chapter, having contrasted and opposed Jeremiah, receives an

awful declaration that, as a proof to the people of his having

spoken without commission, he should die in the then current

year; which accordingly came to pass its the seventh month,

1-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXVIII

Verse Jeremiah 28:1. And it came to pass the same year - the fifth month] Which commenced with the first new moon of August, according to our calendar. This verse gives the precise date of the prophecy in the preceding chapter; and proves that Zedekiah, not Jehoiakim, is the name that should be read in the first verse of that chapter.

Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet] One who called himself a prophet; who pretended to be in commerce with the Lord, and to receive revelations from him. He was probably a priest; for he was of Gibeon, a sacerdotal city in the tribe of Benjamin.

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