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8The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Jeremiah 28:8 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-9)This struggle between a true prophet and a false one is said here to have happened in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah , and yet in the fourth year , for the first four years of his reign might well be called the beginning , or former part, of it, because during those years he reigned under the dominion of the king of Babylon and as a tributary to him; whereas the rest of his reign, which mi...
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