3 Before two years are over, I will bring back all the things that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took from the Lord’S Temple. Nebuchadnezzar has carried those things to Babylon. But I will bring them back here to Jerusalem.
4 I will also bring the king of Judah, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, back to this place. And I will bring back all the people of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar forced to leave their homes and go to Babylon,’ says the Lord. ‘So I will break the yoke that the king of Babylon put on the people of Judah.’”
5 Then the prophet Jeremiah answered the prophet Hananiah. They were standing in the Temple of the Lord. The priests and all the people there could hear Jeremiah’s answer.
6 Jeremiah said to Hananiah, “Amen! May the Lord do that. May the Lord make the message you say come true. May he bring the things of the Lord’S Temple back to this place from Babylon. And may he bring all those who were forced to leave their homes back to this place.
7 “But listen to what I have to say to you and to all the people.
8 There were prophets long before you and I became prophets, Hananiah. They spoke against many countries and great kingdoms and always warned that war, hunger, and disease would come to them.
9 So the prophet who says that we will have peace must be tested. People can know that he really was sent by the Lord only if his message comes true.”