Jeremiah 28:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

Jeremiah 28:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 149:8
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Lamentations 2:14
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Jeremiah 27:15
For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-17)

We have here an instance, I. Of the insolence of the false prophet. To complete the affront he designed Jeremiah, he took the yoke from off his neck which he carried as a memorial of what he had prophesied concerning the enslaving of the nations to Nebuchadnezzar, and he broke it, that he might give a sign of the accomplishment of this prophecy, as Jeremiah had given of his, and might seem to have…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Thou hast broken ... wood ... thou shalt make ... iron--Not here, “Thou hast broken ... wood,” and “I will make ... iron” (compare Jr 28:16). The same false prophets who, by urging the Jews to rebel, had caused them to throw off the then comparatively easy yoke of Babylon, thereby brought on them a more severe yoke imposed by that city. “Yokes of iron,” alluding to De 28:48. It is better to ta…