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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 28 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/28.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Jeremiah 28</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/27.htm" title="Jeremiah 27">◄</a> Jeremiah 28 <a href="../jeremiah/29.htm" title="Jeremiah 29">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Jeremiah Accuses Hananiah of Being a False Prophet</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_28_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.1" class="v24_28_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.28.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Later that same year, in the fifth month of the fourth year that Zedekiah<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.28.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> was king,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.28.1!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur from Gibeon came up to me in the temple. And while the priests and others in the temple were listening, </span><span class="v24_28_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.2" class="v24_28_2">2</span>he told me that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_28_2">I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span> All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I will smash the yoke<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.28.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> that Nebuchadnezzar<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.28.2!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> put on the necks of the nations to make them his slaves. </span><span class="v24_28_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.3" class="v24_28_3">3</span>And within two years, I will bring back to Jerusalem everything that he took from my temple and carried off to Babylonia. </span><span class="v24_28_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.4" class="v24_28_4">4</span>King Jehoiachin<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.28.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and the other people who were taken from Judah to Babylonia will be allowed to come back here as well. All this will happen because I will smash the power of the king of Babylonia!</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_28_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.5" class="v24_28_5">5</span>The priests and the others were still standing there, so I said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_28_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.6" class="v24_28_6">6</span>Hananiah, I hope the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will do exactly what you said. I hope he does bring back everything the Babylonians took from the temple, and that our people who were taken to Babylonia will be allowed to return home. </span><span class="v24_28_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.7" class="v24_28_7">7</span>But let me remind you and everyone else </span><span class="v24_28_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.8" class="v24_28_8">8</span>that long before we were born, prophets were saying powerful kingdoms would be struck by war, disaster, and disease. </span><span class="v24_28_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.9" class="v24_28_9">9</span>Now you are saying we will have peace. We will just have to wait and see if that is really what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has said.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.28.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_28_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.10" class="v24_28_10">10</span>Hananiah grabbed the wooden yoke from my neck and smashed it. </span><span class="v24_28_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.11" class="v24_28_11">11</span>Then he said, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says this is the way he will smash the power Nebuchadnezzar has over the nations, and it will happen in less than two years.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_28_11">I left the temple, </span><span class="v24_28_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.12" class="v24_28_12">12</span>and a little while later, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> told me </span><span class="v24_28_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.13-Jer.28.14" class="v24_28_13">13-14</span>to go back and say to Hananiah:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_28_13">I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span> All-Powerful, the God of Israel. You smashed a wooden yoke, but I will replace it with one made of iron. I will put iron yokes on all the nations, and they will have to do what King Nebuchadnezzar commands. I will even let him rule the wild animals.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_28_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.15-Jer.28.16" class="v24_28_15">15-16</span>Hananiah, I have never sent you to speak for me. And yet you have talked my people into believing your lies and rebelling against me. So now I will send you—I'll send you right off the face of the earth! You will die before this year is over.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_28_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.28.17" class="v24_28_17">17</span>Two months later, Hananiah died.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Zedekiah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.3.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Later … king: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">yoke: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 27.1,2.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Nebuchadnezzar: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 21.2.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jehoiachin: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Jeconiah” (see the note at 24.1).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">We will … said: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Deuteronomy 18.21,22.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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