Jeremia 28:1

Lutherbibel

Und in demselben Jahr, im Anfang des Königreiches Zedekias, des Königs in Juda, im fünften Monat des vierten Jahres, sprach Hananja, der Sohn Assurs, ein Prophet von Gibeon, zu mir im Hause des HERRN, in Gegenwart der Priester und alles Volks, und sagte:

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Es begab sich aber in demselben Jahre, im Anfang der Regierung Zedekias, des Königs von Juda, im vierten Jahre, im fünften Monat, daß Hananja, der Sohn Assurs, der Prophet von Gibeon, im Hause des Herrn vor den Priestern und dem ganzen Volk zu mir sagte:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the same: Jeremiah 27:1

Hananiah: Jeremiah 28:11, Jeremiah 36:12, Jeremiah 37:13

the prophet: Jeremiah 23:28, Isaiah 9:15, Zechariah 13:2-4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 18:22 - speaketh 1 Kings 22:6 - Go up 2 Chronicles 18:5 - Go up 2 Chronicles 36:12 - before Jeremiah Nehemiah 6:14 - on the prophetess Jeremiah 1:3 - unto the end Jeremiah 27:12 - Zedekiah Jeremiah 28:5 - the house Jeremiah 29:15 - General Jeremiah 37:19 - your Ezekiel 13:16 - see visions Hosea 7:3 - General Acts 13:8 - withstood Romans 16:18 - by 2 Timothy 3:8 - resist

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass the same year,.... That the prophet was bid to make yokes and bonds, and send them to the neighbouring kings, whose ambassadors were in Zedekiah's court; and when he spoke the things related in the preceding chapter to Zedekiah, the priests, and people:

in the beginning the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah; perhaps in the first year of his reign:

in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth month; not in the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign, though the Septuagint and A table versions so render it; since his reign was but eleven years in all, and therefore the fourth could not be called with so much propriety the beginning of his reign: though, according to Jarchi, it was the fourth of Zedekiah's reign, the same year in which he paid a visit to the king of Babylon,

Jeremiah 51:59; and was not only confirmed in his kingdom by him, but, according to the same writer, had it enlarged, and was made king over five neighbouring kings; and so this, though the fourth of his reign over Judah, was the first of his enlarged dominions: but rather this was the fourth year of the sabbatical year, or the fourth after the seventh year's rest of the land, as Kimchi observes; which was the first of Zedekiah's reign, who reigned eleven years, and the temple was destroyed at the end of a sabbatical year; in which he is followed by many, though there is nothing in the text or context that directs to it. Some divide Zedekiah's reign into three parts, the beginning, and middle, and end; and so what was done within the first four years of his reign might be said to be in the beginning of it. Others think that here are two distinct dates; that the former respects the things in the preceding chapter, which were in the beginning of his reign; and the latter that affair of Hananiah, which was in the fourth year of it. But Noldius m, after Glassius n, gets clear of the difficulties of this text, by rendering the words, "and it was from that year, the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, unto the fourth year of his reign"; that is, the prophet went on for the space of four years, signifying the will of the Lord by words and types; when in the fifth month of the fourth year, which was the month of Ab, answering to part of our July and of August,

Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet; the false prophet, as the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions call him,

which [was] of Gibeon; a city of the priests; so might be a priest, though not the high priest, as some have thought:

spake unto me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests,

and of all the people; he came to the temple, where Jeremiah was, to confront him; and he addressed himself to him, the priests and all the people being present, who were come thither to minister and worship:

saying; as follows:

m Concord. Ebr. Partic. p. 143. No. 677. n Philolog. Sacr. l. 4. p. 625.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the beginning ... Zedekiah - Probably a gloss put into the margin to explain “the same year,” from where it has crept into the text.

Gibeon - A city of priests Joshua 21:17. Hananiah was probably a priest as well as a prophet. He chose either a Sabbath or a new moon, that he might confront Jeremiah not only in the presence of the priests, but also of all the people. He used Jeremiah 28:2 the solemn formula which claims direct inspiration.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.