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Chapter 28 continues the story from chapter 27. In chapter 27, Jeremiah railed against the false prophets while wearing the yoke from God. He pleaded with the people to ignore the false prophets who said the vessels would return from exile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In chapter 28, Hananiah, a false prophet, breaks the yoke and prophecies exactly what Jeremiah warned against in chapter 28. Jeremiah, in another throwback to the rebuke in Deuteronomy, promises that the wooden yoke will become an iron one if the people do not listen:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Go say to Hananiah: Thus said GOD: You broke bars of wood, but you shall make bars of iron instead. For thus said GOD of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put an iron yoke upon the necks of all those nations, that they may serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon\u2014and serve him they shall! (verses 13 and 14).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Compare this to:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You shall have to serve\u2014in hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything\u2014the enemies whom God will let loose against you. [God] will put an iron yoke upon your neck until you are wiped out (Deuteronomy 28:48).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The confrontation with Hananiah is another opportunity for the reader to see Jeremiah\u2019s disposition. When Elijah was confronted with the false prophets of Baal, he set up an elaborate show that ended with the slaughter of the prophets in grand fashion. He sets the prophets up for mockery by challenging them to perform miracles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah\u2019s confrontation is more subtle. At first, he agrees with Hananiah:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amen! The Lord should do so! The Lord should perform your words and bring back the vessels from the Temple (verse 6).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the last chapter, Jeremiah admonished the people not to listen to the false prophets. In chapter 28, Jeremiah\u2019s own words show that deep in his heart he wished that the words of this false prophet were true. Jeremiah, like Elijah, decrees that his prophetic adversary die, but Jeremiah\u2019s edict is quiet and does not happen in a grandiose way at that moment. He decrees that Hananiah will die within a year, and two months later he does. The text does not provide any details as to his death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah at once can walk around with a yoke on his neck, and at the same time quietly dispatch his adversaries while simultaneously wishing their message was the truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Maimonides specifically cited Hananiah in his <\/span>Letter to Yemen<\/span><\/em> as emblematic of a false prophet whose credentials are impugned by the content of his message rather than other external factors such as miracles or pedigree. Listening closely to the precise articulation of their prophecies then should determine authenticity in the duel between Jeremiah and Hananiah. One such substantive component of Hananiah\u2019s prophecy that exposed Hananiah\u2019s charade was the issue of the Temple vessels looted by the Babylonians. Hananiah boldly predicted that God would<\/span> \u201crestore to this place all the vessels of the House of the Lord which King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took\u201d (28:3). Hananiah\u2019s choice of the vessels, of stuff, as the supreme symbol of victory rested on an implicit endorsement of a decadent ideology King Josiah long before tried to rout. Josiah\u2019s reform shifted the focus of national existence from the furnishings of the Temple, the material symbols of its glory, to a text, to the Torah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After a public reading of the \u201ctext of the covenant\u201d (2 Kings 23:2), that had been exhumed after being buried beneath centuries of hoarding stuff, Josiah emptied the Temple of \u201call the vessels made for Ba\u2019al and Asherah and the host of heaven\u201d (23:4). Obsession with the material symbols of holiness led naturally to a syncretistic obsession with the deification of the material aspects of nature. Hananiah crafted this choice of the return of the Temple vessels as the crowning achievement of his predicted victory over Babylon to appeal to just these popular sensual predilections. But this seduction of a surfeit of vessels in the Temple also appealed to the ruling class, playing to aspirations which traced their way back to the very origins of the Davidic dynasty. David constructed his own castle, or paean to his own glory, before contemplating as an afterthought a center dedicated to God, \u201cHere I am dwelling in a house of cedar while the Ark of the Lord sits in a tent\u201d (2 Sam 7:2). Once built the Temple was populated by a glut of vessels dedicated to a pantheon of gods. These were the residue of self-empowering alliances Solomon forged by numerous foreign marriages in direct violation of the Deuteronomic law of the king (Deut. 17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By focusing on the return of Temple vessels as the goal of any insurrection against Babylonia, Hananiah engaged in classic demagoguery that would naturally appeal to the material and political ambitions of the king and the people. It was a populist strategy aimed at restoring that nationalistic and monarchic glory so inimical to the overarching aims of the Torah, once again gathering dust underneath them. The Babylonian king enhanced his political stature by pillaging the Temple and so the Israelite polis would restore its glory by repatriating those symbols of its national prestige.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hananiah\u2019s message exploited the allure of political power raising those dangers posed by kingship in the ancient Near East that conflated God with the king.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71111,"alt":"","title":"jer28-menorahs","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","width":720,"height":590,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs-300x246.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":246,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","medium_large-width":720,"medium_large-height":590,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","large-width":720,"large-height":590,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","1536x1536-width":720,"1536x1536-height":590,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","2048x2048-width":720,"2048x2048-height":590,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","post_full_size-width":720,"post_full_size-height":590,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs-513x420.jpg","home_baner-width":513,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Hananiah\u2019s Demagoguery\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Not by might, and not by bling","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":71111,"alt":"","title":"jer28-menorahs","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","width":720,"height":590,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs-300x246.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":246,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","medium_large-width":720,"medium_large-height":590,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","large-width":720,"large-height":590,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","1536x1536-width":720,"1536x1536-height":590,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","2048x2048-width":720,"2048x2048-height":590,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs.jpg","post_full_size-width":720,"post_full_size-height":590,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-menorahs-513x420.jpg","home_baner-width":513,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"28","chapter_main_number":"428","date":"20270420","wall_id":"428"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"423","name":"Politics","old_id":"823"},{"term_id":"440","name":"Wealth\/money","old_id":"840"},{"term_id":"676","name":"Material","old_id":"1076"},{"term_id":"942","name":"Josiah","old_id":"1342"}]},{"order":4,"id":"71102","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Power Of Saying Amen ","post_title":"The Power Of Saying Amen","slug":"the-power-of-saying-amen","old_id":"71102","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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In our chapter, Jeremiah confronts the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who declares in the presence of the priests and all the people: \u201cThus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: I hereby break the yoke of the king of Babylon\u201d (Jeremiah 28:2). At first, it seems that Jeremiah confirms this promising prophecy, saying: \u201cAmen! May the Lord do so!\u201d (verse 6). But in the continuation, Jeremiah casts doubt on this dubious promise. At the end of our chapter, Jeremiah says: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Listen, Hananiah! The Lord did not send you, and you have given this people lying assurances. Assuredly, thus said the Lord: I am going to banish you from off the earth. This year you shall die, for you have urged disloyalty to the Lord (verses 15-16). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And indeed, we are then told: \u201cAnd the prophet Hananiah died that year\u201d (verse 17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps, not surprisingly, the rabbinic sages criticize Jeremiah for having even initially responded to Hananiah\u2019s prophecy with the word \u201cAmen\u201d.\u00a0 According to Talmud Bavli Sotah 41b-42a, Jeremiah is seen to have flattered Hananiah by first responding \u201cAmen\u201d to him, rather than immediately condemning him as a false prophet. This interpretation of our Chapter is embedded in an instructive discussion of the evils of \u201cflattery\u201d (hanupah<\/em>). Of one who flatters, it is said that \u201ceven the embryos in their mothers' wombs curse him\u201d, and that he will \u201cfall into Gehinnom\u201d. And in reference to our chapter, it is said that whoever flatters his fellow man, will eventually \u201cfall into his hand\u201d. And if he does not fall into his hand, he will fall into the hand of his sons or grandsons. Jeremiah said to Hananiah obsequiously, \u201cAmen\u201d (Jeremiah 28:6). Then, further on, Jeremiah is arrested by none other than Irijah, the grandson of Hananiah (see Jeremiah 37:13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Elsewhere, Talmud Bavli (Shevuot 36a) states more directly that one of the main uses of the word \u201cAmen\u201d is the \u201cconfirmation of words \u2013 ha\u2019amanat devarim.<\/em>\u201d This is demonstrated by Jeremiah\u2019s response to the prophecy of Hananiah: \u201cAmen! May the Lord do so! May the Lord fulfill your words (devarekha<\/em>) that you have prophesied\u201d (Jeremiah 28:6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAmen\u201d is a much-used word not only among Jews, but also among Christians and Muslims (\u201cAmin\u201d in Arabic). It is generally an expression of strong agreement, and more specifically as a response to blessings and prayers. A Jew who hears another adult Jew recite a blessing is halakhically obligated to answer \u201cAmen\u201d (Maimonides, Laws of Blessings 1:13; Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayyim 215:2). Indeed, the Talmud Bavli Shabbat 119a teaches that He who responds \u201cAmen\u201d with all his might, \u201cthe gates of Paradise are opened for him\u201d, as it is written: \u201cOpen the gates, and let a righteous nation enter, that keeps faith [shomer emunim<\/em>]\u201d (Isaiah 26:2) \u2013 which can be re-read \u201cshe-omrim amen<\/em> \u2013 those who say Amen\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71107,"alt":"","title":"jer28-amen","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen.jpg","width":1920,"height":1087,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-300x170.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":170,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-768x435.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":435,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-1024x580.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":580,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":870,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1087,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-1200x679.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":679,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-742x420.jpg","home_baner-width":742,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Power Of Saying Amen","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Roger that","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":71107,"alt":"","title":"jer28-amen","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen.jpg","width":1920,"height":1087,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-300x170.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":170,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-768x435.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":435,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-1024x580.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":580,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":870,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1087,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-1200x679.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":679,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer28-amen-742x420.jpg","home_baner-width":742,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"28","chapter_main_number":"428","date":"20270420","wall_id":"428"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"437","name":"Prayer","old_id":"837"},{"term_id":"504","name":"Blessing","old_id":"904"}]},{"order":5,"id":"71113","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Jeremiah Meets a False Prophet ","post_title":"Jeremiah Meets A False Prophet","slug":"jeremiah-meets-a-false-prophet","old_id":"71113","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. 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As identified in the opening verse, Hananiah ben Azzur was \u201ca prophet,\u201d inviting us to assume that he was genuine. True, he contradicted Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy of subjugation by the Babylonians (2), but it was not inconceivable, at that time, that it could be reversed. Jeremiah, however, called him out and predicted his imminent death and, indeed, he died within two months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What confirmed the falsehood of his prophecy?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah provides guidelines for identifying false prophecy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But any prophet who presumes to speak in My name an oracle that I did not command him to utter, or who speaks in the name of other gods\u2014that prophet shall die. And should you ask yourselves, \u201cHow can we know that the oracle was not spoken by the LORD?\u201d\u2014 if the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the oracle does not come true, that oracle was not spoken by the LORD; the prophet has uttered it presumptuously: do not stand in dread of him. (Deut. 18:20-22)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, in verses 8-9, Jeremiah provided a critical addendum.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophets who lived before you and me from ancient times prophesied war, disaster, and pestilence against many lands and great kingdoms. So if a prophet prophesies good fortune, then only when the word of the prophet comes true can it be known that the LORD really sent him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal* pointed out that the first of these two verses lacks an \u201capodosis\u201d (<\/span>gezeirah<\/span><\/em>), the consequence clause of a conditional sentence. What about prophets who prophesied war, etc.? He completed the sentence based on the commentary of Rashi and a comment made by Maimonides in his Mishnah Commentary, to the effect that the failure of a disastrous prophecy to be fulfilled is not proof of falsehood, per se, because the intended victims might yet repent and the decree revoked. However, the failure of a benevolent prophecy to come to pass can only be de facto proof of its falsehood.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Incidentally, Shadal offered yet another judicious textual emendation of verse 8 (see our comments on the previous chapter<\/a>), advising that the word <\/span>ra`ah<\/span><\/i> (disaster) should be read as <\/span>ra`av<\/span><\/i> (famine), given that it is paired with war and pestilence four more times in this book alone (24:10, 29:17, 32:24, 34:17) and is also attested to in manuscripts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Hananiah's prophecy offers a fascinating case study. The talmudic rabbis consider that he may have been a true prophet and use this story to attempt to define a false prophet. A mishna in Sanhedrin asserts that some prophets are put on trial for their prophecy: one who invents a prophecy without having actually received it, and one who prophesies what another prophet heard. An example of the first category is Zedekiah son of Kenaana, who stages a prophetic performance in the presence of the kings of Israel and Judah before they battle Edom. As an example of the second category, the rabbis offer Hananiah son of Azzur, \"who would hear things from Jeremiah the prophet as he prophesied in the upper market, and then go and repeat his words in the lower market.\" How can this be? Jeremiah uttered the exact opposite of Hananiah's prediction! This contradiction is addressed in the Talmud itself:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cJeremiah stood in the upper market and said: \"Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Behold, I shall break the bow of Elam\" [49:35]. Hananiah reasoned <\/span>a fortiori<\/span><\/i>: If concerning Elam, which merely assisted Babylonia, God said: \"Behold, I shall break the bow of Elam,\" then it should certainly be true of the Chaldeans! He went to the lower market and said: \"Thus said the Lord of Hosts...I will break the yoke of the King of Babylonia.\" R. Papa said to Abbaye: Didn't he repeat this prophecy to his colleague [i.e., Jeremiah]? Abbaye responded: Since Hananiah deduced this conclusion logically, it was as if Jeremiah had said these words\u201d (Sanhedrin 89a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Evidently, the rabbis felt that Hananiah's words had some substance. The rebellion against Babylonia was not absurd. After Jeremiah leaves the Temple, he receives another divine vision, instructing him to encounter Hananiah once more:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThen the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah: Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies. Therefore, thus said the Lord: I shall cast you off the face of the earth \u2014 this year you will die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord. In the seventh month of that year, Hananiah the prophet died\u201d (28:15-17) .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

No one else heard Jeremiah's curse. Though Hananiah indeed died, his prophecy did not die with him, and the people still believed in it. Hananiah probably died a hero's death, meriting an honorable burial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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28:11 \u201cAnd Hananiah said before the eyes of all the people, saying \u2018Thus said the LORD: So will I break the yoke of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylonia in another two years from the neck of all the nations.\u2019 And Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cForbidden Prophecy: The Sad Story of Hananiah son of Azzur\u201d<\/a> by Samuel Kaye: Explore sources about this Biblical figure.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cCould There Be Another Prophet Like Moses?<\/a>\u201d by Suzie Jacobson: Is Moses one-of-a-kind?<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Prophet, prophet<\/em>. Both Jeremiah and Hananiah are called prophets. So that we too understand how hard it is sometimes to tell the difference between different kinds of prophets.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Why only two years from now<\/em>? Hananiah prophecies that the yoke of Babylonia will be broken in two years time. Perhaps this number is based on the estimate that if there is a regional rebellion (the planning of which was the subject of the regional summit conference that occurred in the last chapter), it could take about two years to bear fruit.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Doubly symbolic act<\/em>. In the previous chapter Jeremiah was commanded to prepare a yoke, and put it around his neck. In verse 10, it becomes evident that the yoke is (still) on his neck. Hananiah breaks it to make his point: that the yoke shall be broken, very soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Problematic criterion<\/em>. Verse 8-9 explain how to tell the difference between true and false prophets. Is it clear now?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Where\u2019s the audience<\/em>? In the public exhortation where Hananiah prophecies and Jeremiah doesn\u2019t know whether it is ultimately a true or false prophecy, there are many onlookers. But they are not with Jeremiah, neither when he receives the true prophecy, nor when he goes to reprove Hananiah. Who will know that he was a false prophet? Who among them will know why he died?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. Imagining the unsaid<\/em>. The chapter focuses on the external, visual details. The reader needs to use their imagination to fill in the empty spaces regarding the internal drama. What is Jeremiah feeling in his confrontation with Hananiah: uncertainty? hope? frustration? 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