Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken chains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron.

“Here is set down the disproof of the falsehood. And first he excludes the false consolation, by the likeness of the deed: "thou hast broken" — thou, Hananiah; and "thou shalt make" — thou, Jeremiah — as a sign of the increasing of the punishment. Job 6: they who fear the frost, snow shall rush upon them. And the exposition of the likeness: "for thus saith the Lord"; as if he were to say: the yoke of servitude shall be harder than it was foreshown to be. Eccl. 28: the yoke of it is a yoke of iron, and the bond of it is a bond of bronze. Secondly is set down the threat against the prophesier himself: and first is set down the repression of the fault: "and Jeremiah said (...) he hath not sent thee." Isa. 24: we have made a lie our hope, and by a lie we are protected. Secondly is set down the threat of punishment: "therefore I will send thee away"; that is, I will take thee away by death. Psalm. 18: not so the wicked, not so; but as the dust which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. Thirdly is set down the fulfillment of the prophecy: "and he died in the seventh month": whence he survived no more than two months. 1 Thess. 5: when they shall say, peace and security; then sudden destruction shall come upon them, as pain upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.”

“Go and tell Hananiah, saying, thus saith 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: thou hast broken the yokes of wood: or, "bonds", or "the thongs" (q); with which the yokes of wood were bound and fastened, as Kimchi interprets it: but thou shall 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. (q) "lora lignea", Junius & Tremellius.”

“Thou hast broken . . . wood . . . thou shalt make . . . iron--Not here, "Thou hast broken . . . wood," and "I will make . . . iron" (compare Jer 28:16). The same false prophets who, by urging the Jews to rebel, had caused them to throw off the then comparatively easy yoke of Babylon, thereby brought on them a more severe yoke imposed by that city. "Yokes of iron," alluding to Deu 28:48. It is better to take up a light cross in our way, than to pull a heavier on our own heads. We may escape destroying providences by submitting to humbling providences. So, spiritually, contrast the "easy yoke" of Christ with the "yoke of bondage" of the law (Act 15:10; Gal 5:1).”