OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Jeremiah 28:10

World English Bible Updated

Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.

Read in Jeremiah 28
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Jeremiah 28:10 in context

Jeremiah 28:7–13

7

Nevertheless listen now to this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:

8

The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.

9

As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.”

10
Selected verse

Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.

11

Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “The LORD says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from off the neck of all the nations within two full years.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

12

Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

13

“Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘The LORD says, “You have broken the bars of wood, but you have made in their place bars of iron.”

Read all of Jeremiah 28

Continue with Jeremiah 28

Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.

Open Jeremiah 28