Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
this year . . . die—The prediction was uttered in the fifth month (Jeremiah 28:1); Hananiah's death took place in the seventh month, that is, within two months after the prediction, answering with awful significance to the two years in which Hananiah had foretold that the yoke imposed by Babylon would end.
rebellion—opposition to God's plain direction, that all should submit to Babylon (Jeremiah 29:32).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 28:16:
Jeremiah 18:18
Jeremiah 28:13
Jeremiah 29:32
Jeremiah 36:12
Jeremiah 37:13
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