Jeremiah 26

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1 At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this was the word of the Lord:
2 Thus saith the Lord: Stand in the court of the house of Jehovah, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words that I command you to tell them; Do not reduce a word.
3 Perhaps they will listen and turn each from their evil way, and then I will abolish the calamity that I think to do for their evil deeds.
4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord: If ye will not hearken unto me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,
5 To hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets whom I send unto you, I send them early in the morning, and which ye hear not:
6th Then with this house I will do the same as with Shiloh, and this city will I curse to all the peoples of the earth.

7th The priests and prophets and all the people listened to Jeremiah when he spoke these words in the house of the Lord.
8 And when Jeremiah said all that the Lord commanded him to tell all the people, then the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, and said: "You must die;
9 Why do you prophesy in the name of the Lord, and you say: This house will be like Silom, and this city will be empty, without inhabitants? And all the people gathered themselves together against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10 When the princes of Judah heard about this, they came from the king's house to the house of the Lord and sat at the entrance to the new gate of the Lord's house.
eleven Then the priests and the prophets said so to the princes and to all the people: "The death sentence to this man! Because he prophesies against this city, as you have heard with your ears. "
12 And Jeremiah said unto all the princes and to all the people: The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house, and against all this city are all the words that ye heard;
13 So amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will abolish the evil that he spoke against you;
14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hands; Do with me, which in your eyes will seem good and just;
15 Only know firmly that if you kill me, put innocent blood on yourself and this city and its inhabitants; For verily the Lord sent me to you to say all those words in your ears. "

16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets: "This man is not subject to the death sentence, because he spoke to us in the name of the Lord our God."
17th And some of the elders of the earth arose and said to the whole people's congregation:
18 `Micaiah the Morasite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house is a woody hill.
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah dead him, and all Judah? Was he not afraid of the Lord, and did he not plead with the Lord? And the Lord overcame the evil that he spoke against them; But we want to do great evil to our souls?
20 He also prophesied by the name of the Lord a certain Uriah, the son of Shemaiah, from Cariath-jearim, and prophesied against this city and against this land in exactly the same words as Jeremiah.
21 When his words were heard by King Jehoiakim and all his nobles and all the princes, the king sought to kill him. Hearing about this, Uriah was afraid and ran away, and retired to Egypt.
22 But King Jehoiakim also sent people to Egypt: Elnafan, the son of Akhborov, and others with him.
23 And they brought Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiachin, and he killed him with a sword and threw his corpse, where there were common people's tombs.
24 But the hand of Ahikam, the son of Safan, was for Jeremiah, so as not to give him into the hands of the people to kill. "

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