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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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageBabylon 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.
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