Jeremiah 28

Jeremiah 28
Book of Jeremiah in Hebrew Bible, MS. Sassoon 1053, images 283-315.
Book Book of Jeremiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 24
Category Nevi'im

Jeremiah 28 is the twenty-eighth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.[1][2] It is numbered as Jeremiah 35 in Septuagint. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets.[3][4] This chapter contains a confrontation between prophets Jeremiah and Hananiah: Hananiah's false prophecy is responded by Jeremiah's answer, Jeremiah 28:1-9. Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke, Jeremiah foretells an iron yoke, and Hananiah's death, Jeremiah 28:10-17.[5]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.[6]

The order of CATSS based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935), differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs edition (=CATSS).[6]

Hebrew, Vulgate, EnglishRahlfs'LXX (CATSS)
28:1-1735:1-17
51:1-6428:1-64

Structure

NKJV groups this chapter into:

Verse 1

And it happened in the same year, at 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, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying (NKJV)[7]
  • Time of the event: As Zedekiah began to reign in 597 BC, the fourth year is 594/593 BC, the fifth month (Ab) is July–August.[8][9]
  • Gibeon: a city six miles northwest of Jerusalem and about five miles west of Anatoth, Jeremiah's hometown.[9] Like Anathoth, was one of the cities of priests (Joshua 21:17), and Hananiah was probably, therefore, a priest as well as prophet.[10]

Verse 16

"Therefore thus says the Lord: 'Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the Lord.'" (NKJV)[11]
  • Hananiah is exposed by Jeremiah to be a false prophet, so Hananiah will die as punishment from God; this is in accordance to Deuteronomy 18:20:
the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.[9]

Verse 17

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. (NKJV)[12]
  • "Seventh month": two months after Hananiah gave the false prophecy (see Jeremiah 28:1).[9]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: An Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  4. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  5. ↑ Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset; David Brown. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible. 1871. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. 1 2 (CCEL - Brenton Jeremiah Appendix)
  7. ↑ Jeremiah 28:1
  8. ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1122-1123 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  9. 1 2 3 4 The Nelson Study Bible 1997, p. 1274-1275.
  10. ↑ Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers on Jeremiah 28, accessed 12 June 2017.
  11. ↑ Jeremiah 28:16
  12. ↑ Jeremiah 28:17

Bibliography

  • The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999.

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