7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD 8 Now it came to pass when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him saying Thou shalt surely die 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD saying This house shall be like Shiloh and this city shall be desolate 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 then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house 11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people saying This man is worthy to die for he hath prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears
12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people saying The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings and obey the voice of the LORD your God and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you 14 As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you 15 But know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears
16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets This man is not worthy to die for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God 17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land and spake to all the assembly of the people saying
18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and spake to all the people of Judah saying Thus saith the LORD of hosts Zion shall be plowed like a field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death did he not fear the LORD and besought the LORD __ and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them Thus might we procure great evil against our souls
20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim 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 into Egypt 22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt namely Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt 23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people
24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death
