Jeremiah 28:13

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Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron.

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Babylon was the Mesopotamian empire that had subdued Judah and imposed its yoke, the very judgment Jeremiah says God will not remove. Gibeon, a Levitical town northwest of Jerusalem, was Hananiah’s hometown; his false promise of Babylon’s swift overthrow directly contradicts Jeremiah’s prophetic message.

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Jeremiah 28:13 mentions Babylon and Gibeon.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Gibeon · Ar2332

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