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

And it came to pass the same year ...— The chapter stands in immediate sequence with the one that precedes it and confirm…

The Prophet relates here with what haughtiness, and even fury, the false prophet Hananiah came forward to deceive the people and to proclaim his de…

And it came to pass the same year That the prophet was bid to make yokes and bonds, and send them to the neighbouring kin…

Hananiah spoke a false prophecy. His prophecy contained no word of good counsel urging the Jews to repent and return to God. He promises temporal m…

Here, the author turns his attention specifically to certain false prophets. He first addresses a prophet who was telling the future to the remnant…