Jeremiah:26:4-32
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And thou shalt say unto them ,
Thus saith the LORD ;
If ye will not hearken to me ,
to walk in my law ,
which I have set before you ,
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To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets ,
whom I sent unto you ,
both rising up early ,
and sending them ,
but ye have not hearkened ;
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Then will I make this house like Shiloh ,
and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth .
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So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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As for me ,
behold ,
I am in your hand :
do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you .
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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 .
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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 .
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Then rose up certain of the elders of the land ,
and spake to all the assembly of the people ,
saying ,
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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 .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 ;
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And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt ,
namely ,
Elnathan the son of Achbor ,
and certain men with him into Egypt .
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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 .
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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 .