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Text -- Jeremiah 28:1-17 (NET)
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Jeremiah Confronted by a False Prophet
28:1 The following events occurred in that same year , early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah . To be more precise, it was the fifth month of the fourth year of his reign. The prophet Hananiah son of Azzur , who was from Gibeon , spoke to Jeremiah in the Lord’s temple in the presence of the priests and all the people .
28:2 “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says , ‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon .
28:3 Before two years are over , I will bring back to this place everything that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took from it and carried away to Babylon .
28:4 I will also bring back to this place Jehoiakim’s son King Jeconiah of Judah and all the exiles who were taken to Babylon .’ Indeed , the Lord affirms , ‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon .’”
28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah responded to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the Lord’s temple .
28:6 The prophet Jeremiah said , “Amen ! May the Lord do all this ! May the Lord make your prophecy come true! May he bring back to this place from Babylon all the valuable articles taken from the Lord’s temple and the people who were carried into exile .
28:7 But listen to what I say to you and to all these people .
28:8 From earliest times , the prophets who preceded you and me invariably prophesied war , disaster , and plagues against many countries and great kingdoms .
28:9 So if a prophet prophesied peace and prosperity, it was only known that the Lord truly sent him when what he prophesied came true .”
28:10 The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it.
28:11 Then he spoke up in the presence of all the people . “The Lord says , ‘In the same way I will break the yoke of servitude of all the nations to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon before two years are over .’” After he heard this, the prophet Jeremiah departed and went on his way .
28:12 But shortly after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck , the Lord spoke to Jeremiah .
28:13 “Go and tell Hananiah that the Lord says , ‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke . But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!
28:14 For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says , “I have put an irresistible yoke of servitude on all these nations so they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon . And they will indeed serve him. I have even given him control over the wild animals .”’”
28:15 Then the prophet Jeremiah told the prophet Hananiah , “Listen , Hananiah ! The Lord did not send you! You are making these people trust in a lie !
28:16 So the Lord says , ‘I will most assuredly remove you from the face of the earth . You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the Lord .’”
28:17 In the seventh month of that very same year the prophet Hananiah died .
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NET Notes: Jer 28:1 Heb “And it happened in that year in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah son ...
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NET Notes: Jer 28:2 See the study note on 27:2 for this figure. Hananiah is given the same title “the prophet” as Jeremiah throughout the chapter and claims t...
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NET Notes: Jer 28:4 Notice again that the “false” prophet uses the same formula and claims the same source for his message as the true prophet has (cf. 27:22)...
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NET Notes: Jer 28:7 Heb “Listen to this word/message which I am about to speak in your ears and the ears of all these people.”
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NET Notes: Jer 28:8 Many Hebrew mss read “starvation/famine” which is the second member of a common triad “sword, famine, and plague” in Jeremiah....
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NET Notes: Jer 28:9 The verbs in this verse are to be interpreted as iterative imperfects in past time rather than as futures because of the explicit contrast that is dra...
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NET Notes: Jer 28:13 This whole incident (and the preceding one in Jer 28) is symbolic. Jeremiah’s wearing of the yoke was symbolic of the Lord’s message to su...
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NET Notes: Jer 28:14 The emphasis is on the absoluteness of Nebuchadnezzar’s control. The statement is once again rhetorical and not to be taken literally. See the s...
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NET Notes: Jer 28:16 In giving people false assurances of restoration when the Lord had already told them to submit to Babylon, Hananiah was really counseling rebellion ag...
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