Jeremiah 28

¹And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord

²“Thus speaks the Lord

³Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord

⁴And 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

⁵Then 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

⁶and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! The Lord

⁷Nevertheless hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people:

⁸The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms—of war and disaster and pestilence.

⁹As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom the Lord

¹⁰Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it.

¹¹And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the Lord

¹²Now the word of the Lord

¹³“Go and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord

¹⁴For thus says the Lord

¹⁵Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Hear now, Hananiah, the Lord

¹⁶Therefore thus says the Lord

¹⁷So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.