Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Go and tell Hananiah this message from the LORD: 'You have broken the wooden yokes, but now you will create iron yokes to replace them.'
God is telling the false prophet Hananiah that by breaking the symbolic wooden yoke, he has only made the coming judgment worse - like replacing wooden chains with iron ones.
📚 Historical Context
During the reign of King Zedekiah in Judah around 594 BC, the prophet Jeremiah was warning the people of God's judgment through the Babylonian empire, using a wooden yoke as a symbol of the nation's submission to this foreign power. False prophet Hananiah publicly broke Jeremiah's wooden yoke, claiming that God would soon break Babylon's hold and restore the exiles. In response, God instructed Jeremiah to declare that this act of defiance would result in a more severe iron yoke, representing harsher oppression.
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