John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 28:13

"Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars of iron." — Jeremiah 28:13 (ASV)

Go and tell Hananiah, saying, thus says 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 used: you have broken the yokes of wood :
or, "bonds", or "the thongs" ^F17 ; with which the ykes of wood were bound and fastened, as Kimchi interprets it: but you will make for them yokes of iron ;
not Hananiah, but Jeremiah; who should prophesy of a more severe bondage the nations should be brought into by Nebuchadnezzar, in direct contradiction to Hananiah's prophecy; instead of wooden yokes, they should have iron ones; which should lie heavier, and bear harder upon them, and which could not be broken nor taken off.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F17: (Ue tjwm) "lora lignea", Junius & Tremellius.