Jeremiah 28:8 NLT,NIV,ESV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 28:6-9

Jeremiah’s own wishes concurred with Hananiah’s prediction, but asserts that that prediction was at variance with the language of the older prophets.Jeremiah 28:9Then shall the prophet ... - Or, “shall be known as the prophet whom the Lord hath truly sent.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 28:5-9

Jeremiah 28:5-9. The Prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so! Thereby expressing his hearty concern for the good of his nation, and wishing that God would repent him of the evil wherewith he had threatened them by his ministry; for such an affection had he for them, and so truly desirous was he of their welfare, that he would have been content to lie under the imputation of being a false prophet so that their ruin might have been prevented. Nevertheless, hear thou now this word As if... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 28:1-17

Hananiah’s false prophecy (28:1-17)One of the temple prophets, Hananiah, publicly contradicted Jeremiah. He asserted that he had received a revelation from God that showed that within two years Babylon would be overthrown. The captive people and the temple treasures would then return to Jerusalem (28:1-4). Jeremiah replied that he wished such would be the case (5-6), but wishing for a thing does not make it come true. Some prophesy doom, others prophesy peace, but when the events take place... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 28:8

evil = calamity. Hebrew. ra'a'. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "famine". Compare Jeremiah 27:8 , and Jeremiah 29:17 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 28:8

Jeremiah 28:8. 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 other neighbouring people; whereas, Hananiah being single in his predictions, nothing less than the perfect answering of the event could give him the authority of a true prophet.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 28:8

8. prophets . . . before me—Hosea, Joel, Amos, and others. evil—a few manuscripts, read "famine," which is more usually associated with the specification of war and pestilence (Jeremiah 15:2; Jeremiah 18:21; Jeremiah 27:8; Jeremiah 27:13). But evil here includes all the calamities flowing from war, not merely famine, but also desolation, &c. Evil, being the more difficult reading, is less likely to be the interpolated one than famine, which probably originated in copying the parallel... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 28:8-9

Time would tell, he said, whether Hananiah’s prophecies of peace, or Jeremiah’s prophecies of war, were truly from Yahweh. One of the tests of a true prophet in Israel was the fulfillment of his predictions (cf. Jeremiah 23:16-40; Deuteronomy 18:21-22)."Jeremiah’s meaning was that the usual message of the earlier prophets was one of doom, and that when he spoke of judgment he was more in the line of the predecessors than Hananiah, who spoke only of peace and prosperity (Deuteronomy 18:20-22)."... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 28:1-17

1-11. Opposition of Hananiah and the false prophets.2. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel] a formula of Jeremiah’s, and hence, perhaps, assumed by Hananiah as implying an equal claim to inspiration.6. Amen: the Lord do so] i.e. would that it might be so.7-9. Hananiah’s forecasts of peace being in opposition to those of his predecessors, the presumption is against him, and can only be removed by the fulfilment of his predictions (the test laid down in Deuteronomy 18:22), which... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 28:8

(8) The prophets that have been before me and before thee . . .—The appeal to the past is of the nature of an inductive argument. The older prophets whose names were held in honour had not spoken smooth things. They had not prophesied of peace; war, pestilence, and famine had been the burden of their predictions. And there was, therefore, an antecedent probability in favour of one who spoke in the same tone now, rather than of those who held out flattering hopes of peace and victory. The onus... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 28:1-17

CHAPTER IXHANANIAHJeremiah 27:1-22, Jeremiah 28:1-17"Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie."- Jeremiah 28:15THE most conspicuous point at issue between Jeremiah and his opponents was political rather than ecclesiastical. Jeremiah was anxious that Zedekiah should keep faith with Nebuchadnezzar, and not involve Judah in useless misery by another hopeless revolt. The prophets preached the popular doctrine of an imminent Divine intervention to... read more