Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.
- KJV Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.
- NKJV Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it.
- NASB Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
- NLT Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off Jeremiah’s neck and broke it in pieces.
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Quick answer
Hananiah dramatically takes the yoke from Jeremiah's neck and breaks it. He answers prophecy with a defiant counter-sign.
Overview
In a bold theatrical act, Hananiah seizes and shatters Jeremiah's symbolic yoke, enacting his claim that Babylon's power is broken. The gesture was meant to discredit Jeremiah before the crowd. Yet a confident sign is not the same as a true word from God. Hananiah's audacity would soon be exposed by the word of the Lord that he had presumed to oppose.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Jer 27:2This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
- 1 Kgs 22:24–25Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
- Mal 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
- 1 Kgs 22:11Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
- Jer 28:2“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jer 28:4And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
- Jer 36:23–24And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
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