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 prophet who prophesies of peace.—“Peace,” with its Hebrew associations, includes all forms of national prosperity, and is ther…

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 prophet which prophesies of peace Of prosperity, of good things, as Hananiah did, and which are always acceptable to …

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