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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 28:10

Then Hananiah took the yoke off my neck, broke it in pieces,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Symbols and Similitudes;   Yoke;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   The Topic Concordance - Prophecy and Prophets;   Sending and Those Sent;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Yoke;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zedekiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hananiah;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - False Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Yoke;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hananiah;   Jeremiah;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Neck;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jeremiah (1);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke bar from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.
Hebrew Names Version
Then Hananyah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Yirmeyahu's neck, and broke it.
King James Version
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
English Standard Version
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them.
New American Standard Bible
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
New Century Version
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off Jeremiah's neck and broke it.
Amplified Bible
Then Hananiah the [false] prophet took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and smashed it.
World English Bible
Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Hananiah the Prophet tooke the yoke from the Prophet Ieremiahs necke, and brake it.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar of the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
Contemporary English Version
Hananiah grabbed the wooden yoke from my neck and smashed it.
Complete Jewish Bible
At this point Hananyah the prophet took the crossbar off the prophet Yirmeyahu's neck and broke it.
Darby Translation
And the prophet Hananiah took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jeremiah was wearing a yoke around his neck. The prophet Hananiah took the yoke from Jeremiah's neck and broke it.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Hananiah the false prophet took the bands of the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and broke them.
Lexham English Bible
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
Literal Translation
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Hananias the prophet toke the chayne from the prophet Ieremias neck, & brake it:
American Standard Version
Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Bible in Basic English
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and it was broken by his hands.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
King James Version (1611)
Then Hananiah the prophet tooke the yoke from off the prophet Ieremiahs necke, and brake it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Hananias the prophete toke the chayne from the prophete Ieremies necke, and brake it:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord has brought forth his judgment: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.
English Revised Version
Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Ananye, the profete, took the chayne fro the necke of Jeremye, the profete, and brak it.
Update Bible Version
Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
New English Translation
The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.
New King James Version
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.
New Living Translation
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off Jeremiah's neck and broke it in pieces.
New Life Bible
Then Hananiah, the man who told what would happen, took the cross-bar from the neck of Jeremiah the man of God and broke it.
New Revised Standard
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, and broke it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, - and brake it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of Jeremias the prophet, and broke it.
Revised Standard Version
Then the prophet Hanani'ah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and broke them.
Young's Literal Translation
And Hananiah the prophet taketh the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and breaketh it,
THE MESSAGE
At that, Hananiah grabbed the yoke from Jeremiah's shoulders and smashed it. And then he addressed the people: "This is God 's Message: In just this way I will smash the yoke of the king of Babylon and get him off the neck of all the nations—and within two years." Jeremiah walked out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

Contextual Overview

10 Then Hananiah took the yoke off my neck, broke it in pieces, 11 and said in the presence of all the people, "The Lord has said that this is how he will break the yoke that King Nebuchadnezzar has put on the neck of all the nations; and he will do this within two years." Then I left. 12 Some time after this the Lord told me 13 to go and tell Hananiah: "The Lord has said that you may be able to break a wooden yoke, but he will replace it with an iron yoke. 14 The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, has said that he will put an iron yoke on all these nations and that they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. The Lord has said that he will make even the wild animals serve Nebuchadnezzar." 15 Then I told Hananiah this, and added, "Listen, Hananiah! The Lord did not send you, and you are making these people believe a lie. 16 And so the Lord himself says that he is going to get rid of you. Before this year is over you will die because you have told the people to rebel against the Lord ." 17 And Hananiah died in the seventh month of that same year.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

took: Jeremiah 28:2, Jeremiah 28:4, Jeremiah 27:2, Jeremiah 36:23, Jeremiah 36:24, 1 Kings 22:11, 1 Kings 22:24, 1 Kings 22:25, Malachi 3:13

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 18:10 - horns of iron Nehemiah 6:14 - on the prophetess Jeremiah 30:8 - I Jeremiah 37:19 - your Amos 7:11 - thus Acts 13:8 - withstood

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worth all the kindness and faithfulness that you have shown me, your servant. I crossed the Jordan with nothing but a walking stick, and now I have come back with these two groups.
Hosea 12:12
Our ancestor Jacob had to flee to Mesopotamia, where, in order to get a wife, he worked for another man and took care of his sheep.
Acts 7:2
Stephen answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! Before our ancestor Abraham had gone to live in Haran, the God of glory appeared to him in Mesopotamia
Acts 25:13
Some time later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a visit of welcome to Festus.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck,.... Which he wore as a symbol of the subjection of Judea, and other nations, to the king of Babylon: an impudent and insolent action this was, to take the prophet's yoke from his neck; and the more so, as it was by the command of God that he made it, and wore it:

and brake it; being made of wood, as it afterwards appears, and so might easily be broken.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The multitude would see in Hananiah’s act a symbol of deliverance.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 28:10. Then Hananiah - took the yoke - and brake it. — He endeavoured by this symbolical act to persuade them of the truth of his prediction.


 
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