Warning to Zedekiah

¹² I spoke to King Zedekiah of Judah^(A) in the same way: ‘Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, serve him and his people, and live!

Hananiah’s False Prophecy

28 In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah,^(A) in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur from Gibeon^(B) said to me in the temple of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people,

³ He sent the letter with Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah,^(A) whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The letter stated: