Jeremiah’s own wishes concurred with Hananiah’s prediction, but he asserts that this prediction was at variance with the language of the older prop…

The prophets that have been before me and before you ... —The appeal to the past is of the nature of an inductive argumen…

Jeremiah, having testified that he did not wish for anything harmful to his own people, but wished them well, now adds that what he had predicted w…

The prophets that have been before me, and before you of old ,
&c.] Such as Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Micah, Nahum,…

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…

1. Here, Jeremiah’s response is given. First, he shows his emotion by desiring that what he had said would be fulfilled: amen