◄ Jeremiah 28:2 ►
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Good News Translation
that the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had said: "I have broken the power of the king of Babylonia.

New Revised Standard Version
“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Contemporary English Version
he told me that the LORD had said: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I will smash the yoke that Nebuchadnezzar put on the necks of the nations to make them his slaves.

New American Bible
“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

I.

Jeremiah 27:2-12 Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck. . . .

Ezekiel 13:5-16 You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set up a wall for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in the day of the Lord. . . .

Micah 3:11 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Context
Hananiah's False Prophecy
1And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying: 2Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.3As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the house of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 27:12
And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.

Jeremiah 28:11
And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon after two full years from off the neck of all the nations.

Jeremiah 28:1
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