False Prophets: Jeremiah And Zedekiah

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1. In the beginning of chapter 27 in Jeremiah, year 594 BC, Zedekiah is king in Judah. Jeremiah gets a command from God to make and put an ox yoke on his neck. Jeremiah and his ox yoke sends a message to several kingdoms saying that God is giving their land to Babylonians. That they need to obey and serve to Babylon and if any false prophets talk to them that they need to ignore them. Then Jeremiah repeats the same message to Zedekiah, king of Judah. The king needs to ignore the false prophets who keep wanting to fight everyone. Jeremiah says the false prophets are not good people and they are lying to everyone about whats true. So, in Jeremiah chapter 28, one can see that Hananiah is shown as a false prophet. In Zedekiah’s fourth year as a king, Hananiah says to Jeremiah that God broke the yoke and God will return the holy vessels to the temple. Jeremiah doesn’t believe Hananiah because real prophets predicted disease, famine and war. If a prophet is predicting peace, then it would be striking and uncommon to hear. Hananiah decides to break Jeremiah’s yoke, symbolically, and tells Jeremiah that this is the same way God is gonna break Babylonian’s yoke from Judah. This represented that the bondage between Babylon and him would be broken. …show more content…

The lord spoke to Jeremiah while he was in prison to tell him that Hanamel was going to ask Jeremiah to buy the land, Anathoth (32:6-7). "Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that in Anathoth: for the right of redemption thine to buy.” The son of Shallum, Hanamel then showed up to the prison and asked Jeremiah to take the land. The reason why Jeremiah redeemed Anathoth was because God said to so he listened to what He said. Anathoth was pretty much a destroyed city from the Babylonians but he did what he had to do. God command him to take the land because he wanted to give Judah a sign for when he returns from

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