8. that long before we were born, prophets were saying powerful kingdoms would be struck by war, disaster, and disease.
9. Now you are saying we will have peace. We will just have to wait and see if that is really what the Lord has said.
10. Hananiah grabbed the wooden yoke from my neck and smashed it.
11. Then he said, “The Lord says this is the way he will smash the power Nebuchadnezzar has over the nations, and it will happen in less than two years.”I left the temple,
12. and a little while later, the Lord told me
17. Two months later, Hananiah died.