9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be adesolate, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.
11 And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and all the people, saying,1 “This man deserves to adie! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”
12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying: “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words that you have heard.
13 Now therefore, aamend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will relent concerning the doom that He has pronounced against you.
14 As for me, here aI am, in your hand; do with me as seems good and1 proper to you.
15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”
16 So the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve to die. For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
17 aThen certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:
18 a“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:
b“Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become cheaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the1 temple
Like the1 bare hills of the forest.” ’
b“Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become cheaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the1 temple
Like the1 bare hills of the forest.” ’
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death? aDid he not fear the Lord and bseek the Lord’s favor? And the Lord crelented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. dBut we are doing great evil against ourselves.”
20 Now there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to Egypt.
22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor, and other men who went with him to Egypt.
23 And they brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the1 common people.
24 Nevertheless athe hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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