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<span id="v30026009" class="ver">9</span>Why do you prophesy in the name of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: ‘This house shall become like Shiloh,’ and ‘This city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v30026010" class="ver">10</span>When the princes of Judah heard about these things, they came up from the house of the king to the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and convened at the New Gate of the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v30026011" class="ver">11</span>The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “Sentence this man to death! He has prophesied against this city! You heard it with your own ears.”<a id="ren30026011-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30026011-e">e</a> <span id="v30026012" class="ver">12</span>Jeremiah said to the princes and all the people: “It was the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> who sent me to prophesy against this house and city everything you have heard. <span id="v30026013" class="ver">13</span>Now, therefore, reform your ways and your deeds; listen to the voice of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> your God, so that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will have a change of heart regarding the evil he has spoken against you.<a id="ren30026013-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30026013-f">f</a> <span id="v30026014" class="ver">14</span>As for me, I am in your hands; do with me what is good and right in your eyes. <span id="v30026015" class="ver">15</span>But you should certainly know that by putting me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and its inhabitants. For in truth it was the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> who sent me to you, to speak all these words for you to hear.”</p> <p><span id="v30026016" class="ver">16</span>Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve a death sentence; it is in the name of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, that he speaks to us.” <span id="v30026017" class="ver">17</span>At this, some of the elders of the land arose and said to the whole assembly of the people, <span id="v30026018" class="ver">18</span>“Micah of Moresheth<a id="rfn30026018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30026018-1">*</a> used to prophesy in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah: Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">Zion shall be plowed as a field,</p> <p class="sl1">Jerusalem, a heap of ruins,</p> <p class="sl1">and the temple mount,</p> <p class="sl1l">a forest ridge.<a id="ren30026018-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30026018-g">g</a></p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v30026019" class="ver">19</span>Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah condemn him to death? Did he not fear the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and entreat the favor of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, so that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had a change of heart regarding the evil he had spoken against them? We, however, are about to do great evil against ourselves.”<a id="ren30026019-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30026019-h">h</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Fate of Uriah.</span> <span id="v30026020" class="ver">20</span>There was another man who used to prophesy in the name of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, Uriah, son of Shemaiah, from Kiriath-jearim; he prophesied against this city and this land the same message as Jeremiah. <span id="v30026021" class="ver">21</span>When King Jehoiakim and all his officers and princes heard his words, the king sought to have him killed. But Uriah heard of it and fled in fear to Egypt. <span id="v30026022" class="ver">22</span>Then King Jehoiakim sent Elnathan, son of Achbor, and others with him into Egypt, <span id="v30026023" class="ver">23</span>and they brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to Jehoiakim the king, who struck him down with the sword and threw his corpse into the common burial ground. <span id="v30026024" class="ver">24</span>But the hand of Ahikam, son of Shaphan,<a id="rfn30026024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30026024-1">*</a> protected Jeremiah, so they did not hand him over to the people to be put to death.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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