TWO KINGDOMS

Hananiah. A prophet from Gibeon who broke Jeremiah's yoke and promised the captives home within two years.

SCRIPTURE SAYS

“The LORD hath not sent thee” (Jeremiah 28:15)

ERA

Two kingdoms 930–586 BC

IN THE DAYS OF

Zedekiah · Jehoiachin · Nebuchadnezzar

BOOK

None bears the name

HOW HE SPOKE

He spoke in the LORD's name: “Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel”.

THE CALL

How he spoke

  • He spoke in the LORD's name: “Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel”. He spoke in the house of the LORD before the priests and all the people. Jeremiah 28:1–2
  • He acted his word out: he took the yoke off Jeremiah's neck, broke it, and said “Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar”. Jeremiah 28:10–11
  • From the textThe Hebrew text, and the King James Version made from it, give him the title “the prophet” six times (Jer 28:1, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17). The Greek Septuagint names him at his first mention “Ananias the false prophet” (Greek chapter 35:1, in Brenton's translation of 1844). Jeremiah 28:1 Jeremiah 28:5 Jeremiah 28:10 Jeremiah 28:12 Jeremiah 28:15 Jeremiah 28:17 [1]

BEFORE THE KINGS

Before three rulers

KING OF JUDAH

Zedekiah

KING OF JUDAH

Jehoiachin (Jeconiah)

KING OF BABYLON

Nebuchadnezzar

THE WORD GIVEN

What he prophesied

The yoke of Babylon is broken

“Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 28:2 (KJV) →

Home within two years

“Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house”

Jeremiah 28:3 (KJV) →

THE WORD TO …

To whom the word was spoken

TO ALL THE PEOPLE, IN THE TEMPLE

“Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years.”

Jeremiah 28:11 (KJV) →

SIGNS

The word acted out

SIGN-ACT

The yoke broken

THE ANSWER GIVEN

The answer, and what came of it

THE WORD

SCRIPTURE REPORTS

THE WORD

SCRIPTURE REPORTS

COMPANIONS AND OPPONENTS

Who stood with him, and against him

Jeremiah

Azur his father

HOW THE STORY ENDS

Scripture says, tradition says

SCRIPTURE SAYS

  • He died “the same year in the seventh month”; his own word had been spoken in the fifth month. Jeremiah 28:1 Jeremiah 28:16–17

TRADITION SAYS

No tradition is recorded here.

IN SCRIPTURE

Every passage

CHAPTERS · 2

Jeremiah 27 Jeremiah 28

PASSAGES · 2

Jeremiah 27:12–15 Jeremiah 28:1–17

WHAT SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SAY

  • The text does not say how Hananiah died.
  • Scripture says nothing of Hananiah before or after this one chapter, and gives no call.
  • Jeremiah 28:1 dates the meeting “in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah … in the fourth year”, and 27:1 says Jehoiakim; the question is set out on Jeremiah's page.

SOURCES

Where this page comes from

  • L. C. L. Brenton (tr.), The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, translated into English (1844), Jeremiah in the Greek order: chs. 34:2 (Heb. 27:2, no verse 1), 35:1 (Heb. 28:1), 36:24 (Heb. 29:24), 46:1–18 (Heb. 39, verses 4–13 absent); read in the site's Brenton text (data/text/lxxe).
  • L. C. L. Brenton (tr.), The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament and Apocrypha (1851), the opening sentence of Lamentations (checked against the 1879 Bagster scan).
  • S. R. Driver, An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (1891), pp. 239–240 (Jer 10:11), 248, 253–254 (the Greek text of Jeremiah), 298–299 (Obadiah), 314–315 (Nahum), 317–319 (Habakkuk, Zephaniah), 432–435 (Lamentations).
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