Jeremiah 28:10–17

¹⁰Then Hananiah the prophet took ^athe bar of the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

¹¹And Hananiah spoke in the sight of all the people, saying, “^aThus says Yahweh, ‘Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

¹²Then the ^aword of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar of the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

¹³“Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You have broken the bars of a yoke made of wood, but you have made in their place the ^abars of a yoke made of iron.”

¹⁴‘For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “I have put a ^ayoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will ^bserve him. And ^cI have even given him the beasts of the field.” ’ ”

¹⁵Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, Yahweh has not sent you, and ^ayou have made this people trust in a lie.

¹⁶“Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘^aBehold, I am about to ¹remove you from the face of the earth. This year you are going to ^bdie because you have ^cspoken rebellion against Yahweh.’”

¹⁷So Hananiah the prophet died in the same year in the seventh month.