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Jeremiah, Chapter 26, verses 16-24

¹⁶ Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.” ¹⁷ Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying, ¹⁸ “^c Lit Micaiah the MorasthiteMicah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus the LORD of hosts has said,“Zion will be plowed as a field, And Jerusalem will become ruins, And the mountain of the house as the^d Or a wooded heighthigh places of a forest.”’	16 Jer 26:11 Jer 36:19 Jer 36:25 Jer 38:7 Jer 38:13 Act 5:34-39 Act 23:9 Act 23:29 Act 25:25 Act 26:31 17 Act 5:34 18 Mic 1:1 Neh 4:2 Psa 79:1 Jer 9:11 Mic 3:12 Isa 2:2 Isa 2:3 Jer 17:3 Mic 4:1 Zec 8:3
¹⁹ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD^e Lit was sorry forchanged His mind about the misfortune which He had pronounced against them? But we are committing a great evil against ourselves.”	19 Ch2 29:6-11 Ch2 32:26 Isa 37:1 Isa 37:4 Isa 37:15-20 Exo 32:14 Sa2 24:16 Jer 44:7 Hab 2:10
²⁰ Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah. ²¹ When King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death; but Uriah heard it, and he was afraid and fled and went to Egypt. ²² Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him went into Egypt. ²³ And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the^f Lit gravesburial place of the^g Lit sons of the peoplecommon people.	20 Jos 9:17 Sa1 6:21 Sa1 7:2 21 Ch2 16:10 Ch2 24:21 Jer 36:26 Mat 14:5 Ki1 19:2-4 Mat 10:23 22 Jer 36:12 23 Jer 2:30
²⁴ But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.	24 Ki2 22:12-14 Jer 39:14 Jer 40:5-7 Ki1 18:4 Jer 1:18 Jer 1:19


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