The prophet Hananiah publicly contradicts Jeremiah, breaking the wooden yoke and declaring that within two years God will break Babylon’s power and restore the exiles. Jeremiah answers that God has replaced the wooden yoke with an iron one, and foretells that Hananiah, having made the people trust a lie, will die that year — which he does, two months later.
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Jeremiah 28
c. 594 BCHananiah’s false prophecy of quick deliverance, and his death that year.
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