And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.

“Here is set down the disproof of the falsehood. And first he excludes the false consolation, by the likeness of the deed: "thou hast broken" — thou, Hananiah; and "thou shalt make" — thou, Jeremiah — as a sign of the increasing of the punishment. Job 6: they who fear the frost, snow shall rush upon them. And the exposition of the likeness: "for thus saith the Lord"; as if he were to say: the yoke of servitude shall be harder than it was foreshown to be. Eccl. 28: the yoke of it is a yoke of iron, and the bond of it is a bond of bronze. Secondly is set down the threat against the prophesier himself: and first is set down the repression of the fault: "and Jeremiah said (...) he hath not sent thee." Isa. 24: we have made a lie our hope, and by a lie we are protected. Secondly is set down the threat of punishment: "therefore I will send thee away"; that is, I will take thee away by death. Psalm. 18: not so the wicked, not so; but as the dust which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. Thirdly is set down the fulfillment of the prophecy: "and he died in the seventh month": whence he survived no more than two months. 1 Thess. 5: when they shall say, peace and security; then sudden destruction shall come upon them, as pain upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.”

“Then said Jeremiah the prophet unto Hananiah the prophet,.... The false prophet, as he is again called by the Targum, and in the Syriac version; where he went to him, and met with him, whether in the temple or elsewhere, is not mentioned; very probably in some public place, that there might be witnesses of what was said; for it was for the conviction of others, as well as for his own confusion, the following things are observed: hear now, Hananiah, the Lord hath not sent thee; though he spoke in his name, and pretended a mission from him, when he had none, which was abominable wickedness: but thou makest this people to trust in a lie: that the Lord would break off the yoke of the king of Babylon, and free the nations from servitude to him, particularly Judea; and that the king, and his princes, and people, and the vessels of the temple, carried away with him, would be returned within two years; this the people depended on as coming from the Lord, when he was not sent by him.”