A false prophet named Hananiah
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📚✭And it happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that the prophet Hananiah the son of Azur, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, 2 📚✭“Thus the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, has spoken, saying, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 📚Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the articles of the LORD’s house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. 4 📚✭And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon, says the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ” 5 📚✭Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of the LORD, 6 📚and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so. May the LORD perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the articles of the LORD’s house, and all who were carried away captive, from Babylon to this place. 7 📚But listen now to this word that I speak in your hearing, and in the hearing of all the people: 8 📚The prophets who were before me and you long ago prophesied both against many countries and against great kingdoms, about war and disaster, and plague. 9 📚✭The prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of the prophet comes true, ✭ then it will be known that the LORD has really sent that prophet”.
10 📚✭Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke from the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it. 11 📚And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Just so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years.’ ” And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12 📚Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 13 📚“Go and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: You have broken the wooden yokes, but you shall make iron yokes for them. 14 📚For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. And I have given him the beasts of the field also.’ ”
15 📚Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen now, Hananiah. The LORD has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. 16 📚Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘See, I will hurl you from the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.’ ”
17 📚So the prophet Hananiah died the same year in the seventh month.