Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off Jeremiah’s neck and broke it in pieces.
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.
- BSB Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke 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.
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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 27:2Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.
- 1 Kgs 22:24–25Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
- Mal 3:13“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
- 1 Kgs 22:11Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
- Jer 28:2“Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jer 28:4I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
- Jer 36:23–24When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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