“Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The Lord hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.”
Jeremiah addresses Hananiah directly as a prophetic rival, accusing him of causing the people to rely on a lie and positioning his false prophecy as a fundamental betrayal of the community's spiritual well-being. The charge that Hananiah has made people trust in falsehood establishes that false prophecy is not merely intellectual error but spiritual corruption that leads people away from truth and covenant loyalty. This indictment frames the conflict not as political disagreement but as fundamental opposition between truth and falsehood.
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