The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there because it was the most famous high place. He offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
Jeremiah 28:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur from Gibeon said to me in the temple of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass the same year, in 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, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition IN THAT same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and the fifth month, Hananiah son of Azzur, the [false] prophet, who was from Gibeon [one of the priests' cities], said [falsely] to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people: American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, Common English Bible That same year, early in the rule of Judah’s King Zedekiah, in the fifth month of his fourth year, the prophet Hananiah, Azzur’s son from Gibeon, spoke to me in the LORD’s temple before the priests and all the people. Catholic Public Domain Version And it happened in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me, in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it came to pass in that year in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon, spoke to me, in the house of the Lord, before the priests and all the people, saying: |
The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there because it was the most famous high place. He offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.
The head is the elder, the honoured one; the tail is the prophet, the one teaching lies.
The prophet who has only a dream should recount the dream, but the one who has my word should speak my word truthfully, for what is straw compared to grain? ’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.
At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
I spoke to King Zedekiah of Judah in the same way: ‘Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, serve him and his people, and live!
Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon through messengers who are coming to King Zedekiah of Judah in Jerusalem.
In the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, ‘This is what the Lord says: “In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.” ’ The prophet Jeremiah then went on his way.
The prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the temple of the Lord.
he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace. All the officials were sitting there #– #Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
But when he was at the Benjamin Gate, an officer of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, and he apprehended the prophet Jeremiah, saying, ‘You are defecting to the Chaldeans.’
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, “The king of Babylon will not come against you and this land”?
This is the word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.
This is what the prophet Jeremiah commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, the quartermaster, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
They saw false visions and their divinations were a lie. They claimed, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ when the Lord did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfilment of their message.
On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel: ‘Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.’
When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,