Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 7. Seek the peace of the city] endeavour to promote, as far as you can, the prosperity of the places in which ye sojourn. Let no disaffection appear in word or act. Nothing can be more reasonable than this. Wherever a man lives and has his nourishment and support, that is his country as long as he resides in it. If things go well with that country, his interest is promoted by the general prosperity, he lives at comparative ease, and has the necessaries of life cheaper; and unless he is in a state of cruel servitude, which does not appear to have been the case with those Israelites to whom the prophet writes, (those of the first captivity,) they must be nearly, if not altogether, in as good a state as if they had been in the country that gave them birth. And in this case they were much better off than their brethren now in Judea, who had to contend with famine and war, and scarcely any thing before them but God's curse and extermination.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- A false prophet opposes Jeremiah. (Jer. 28:1-9) The false prophe warned of his approaching death. (Jer. 28:10-17)
Jer. 28:1-9 Hananiah spoke a false prophecy. Here is not a word of goo counsel urging the Jews to repent and return to God. He promise temporal mercies, in God's name, but makes no mention of the spiritual mercies which God always promised with earthly blessings. This was no the first time Jeremiah had prayed for the people, though he prophesie against them. He appeals to the event, to prove Hananiah's falsehood The prophet who spake only of peace and prosperity, without adding tha they must not by wilful sin stop God's favours, will be proved a fals prophet. Those who do not declare the alarming as well as the encouraging parts of God's word, and call men to repentance, and faith and holiness, tread in the steps of the false prophets. The gospel of Christ encourages men to do works meet for repentance, but gives n encouragement to continue in sin.
Jer. 28:10-17 Hananiah is sentenced to die, and Jeremiah, when he ha received direction from God, boldly tells him so; but not before he received that commission. Those have much to answer for, who tel sinners that they shall have peace, though they harden their hearts i contempt of God's word. The servant of God must be gentle to all men He must give up even his right, and leave the Lord to plead his cause Every attempt of ungodly men to make vain the purposes of God, will ad to their miseries _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ודרשׁו1875 את853 שׁלום7965 העיר5892 אשׁר834 הגליתי1540 אתכם853 שׁמה8033 והתפללו6419 בעדה1157 אל413 יהוה3068 כי3588 בשׁלומה7965 יהיה1961 לכם שׁלום׃7965
