Jeremiah 28:17
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
Study Note
Study Note
The terse notice that 'Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month' stands as a narrative verification of Jeremiah's counter-prophecy in 28:16 ('this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord'). The verse operates within the Deuteronomic framework of prophetic testing: a true prophet's word comes to pass (Deuteronomy 18:21-22), and Hananiah's death within two months of his prediction demonstrates that his optimistic oracle about Babylon's imminent defeat was false. The historical specificity — 'the seventh month' — lends documentary weight to the narrative, functioning as archival evidence in the scrolls of Jeremiah. The passage has been important in discussions of canonical prophecy's self-authenticating mechanisms and the community's means of discerning true from false prophets.
Other Translations
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
And Hananiah the prophet dieth in that year, in the seventh month.
So death came to Hananiah the prophet the same year, in the seventh month.
Cross References
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