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Jeremiah 28:10-17

Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke from the neck of the prophet
Jeremiah, and broke it.  And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the
people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: This is how I will break the yoke of
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two
years."  At this, the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke from the neck of
the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  Go, tell
Hananiah, Thus says the LORD: You have broken wooden bars only to forge
iron bars in place of them!  For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel: I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations so that
they may serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and they shall indeed serve
him; I have even given him the wild animals.  And the prophet Jeremiah
said to the prophet Hananiah, "Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent
you, and you made this people trust in a lie.  Therefore thus says the
LORD: I am going to send you off the face of the earth.  Within this year
you will be dead, because you have spoken rebellion against the LORD."

In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died.