Jeremiah 28

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] The material found in Jeremiah 28 of the Hebrew Bible appears in Jeremiah 35 in the Septuagint. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. 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.

For Jeremiah 28 in the Septuagint, see Jeremiah 51.
Jeremiah 28
A high resolution scan of the Aleppo Codex showing the Book of Jeremiah (the sixth book in Nevi'im).
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Order in the Hebrew part6
CategoryLatter Prophets
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Order in the Christian part24

Text

The original text of this chapter, as with the rest of the Book of Jeremiah, was written in Hebrew language. Since the division of the Bible into chapters and verses in the late medieval period, this chapter is divided into 17 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[3]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint (with a different chapter and verse numbering), made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[4]

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[5] Jeremiah 28 is a part of the "Tenth prophecy (Jeremiah 26-29)" in the section of "Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life (26-45)". {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{P} 28:1-11 {P} 28:12-17 {P}

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 Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (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

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[7]
  • Time of the event: As Zedekiah began to reign in 597 BC, the fourth year is 594/593 BC, the fifth month (Av or Ab) is July–August.[8]
  • Gibeon: a city six miles northwest of Jerusalem and about five miles west of Anathoth, Jeremiah's hometown. Like Anathoth, it was one of the cities of priests (Joshua 21:17), and Hananiah was probably, therefore, a priest as well as prophet.

Verse 11
And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the Lord: 'Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years.'" And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.[9]

A marginal note in the Masoretic Text tradition indicates that this is the middle verse of the Book of Jeremiah in Hebrew.[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.

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).

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. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35-37.
  4. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73-74.
  5. As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
  6. "Table of Order of Jeremiah in Hebrew and Septuagint". www.ccel.org.
  7. Jeremiah 28:1 NKJV
  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. Jeremiah 28:1 NKJV
  10. Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 23. ISBN 978-0825444593.
  11. Jeremiah 28:16
  12. Jeremiah 28:17

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