Jeremiah 28:13
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.
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Gill's Exposition
Go and tell Hananiah, saying, thus saith the Lord,.... Whose name he had abused; whose prophet he had ill treated; and whose prophecies he had contradicted, and the symbols of them had contumeliously…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
thou shalt make LXX (better) I will make.
bars of iron Hananiah's act would only serve, by exciting the Jews to resistance, to render the servitude which they should undergo more harsh.