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Jeremiah 28
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Chapter 28
The dispute with Hananiah
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That same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, a Gibeonite, spoke as follows to Jeremiah in the Temple of Yahweh in the presence of the priests and of all the people.
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‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this, “I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
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In two years’ time I will bring back all the vessels of the Temple of Yahweh which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried off from this place and took to Babylon.
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And I will also bring back Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who have gone to Babylon – it is Yahweh who speaks. Yes, I am going to break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”‘
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The prophet Jeremiah then replied to the prophet Hananiah in front of the priests and all the people there in the Temple of Yahweh.
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‘I hope so’ the prophet Jeremiah said. ‘May Yahweh do so. May he fulfil the words that you have prophesied and bring the vessels of the Temple of Yahweh and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
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Listen carefully, however, to this word that I am now going to say for you and all the people to hear:
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From remote times, the prophets who preceded you and me prophesied war, famine and plague for many countries and for great kingdoms;
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but the prophet who prophesies peace can only be recognised as one truly sent by Yahweh when his word comes true.’
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The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.
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In front of all the people Hananiah then said, ‘Yahweh says this, “This is how, two years hence, I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and take it off the necks of all the nations”‘. At this, the prophet Jeremiah went away.
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After the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke which he had taken off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah the word of Yahweh was addressed to Jeremiah,
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‘Go to Hananiah and tell him this, “Yahweh says this: You can break wooden yokes? Right, I will make them iron yokes instead!
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For Yahweh Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this: An iron yoke is what I now lay on the necks of all these nations to subject them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. (They will be subject to him; I have even given him the wild animals.)”‘
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The prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, ‘Listen carefully, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; and thanks to you this people are now relying on what is false.
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Hence – Yahweh says this, “I am going to throw you off the face of the earth: you are going to die this year (since you have preached apostasy from Yahweh)”.’
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The prophet Hananiah died the same year, in the seventh month.
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