16 Jeremiah 21-36: A Translationspeaking everything that Yahweh commancied him to speak to all the people,
the priests and the prophets and all the people then laid hold of him, saying,
'You shall surely die!^9 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh say-
ing, Like Shiloh this house shall become, and this city will dry up without in-
habitant?' And all the people crowded up to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.(^10) And the princes of Judah heard these things and came up from the house of
the king to the house of Yahweh, and they sat at the entrance of the New Gate
of the house of Yahweh.^11 And the priests and the prophets said to the princes
and to all the people: 'A sentence of death for this man! because he has proph-
esied to this city according to what you have heard with your ears.'
(^12) Then Jeremiah said to all the princes and to all the people:
Yahweh sent me to prophesy to this house and to this city all the words that
you have heard.^13 And now, make good your ways and your doings, and
obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and then Yahweh will repent con-
cerning the evil that he has spoken against you.^14 But I, look I am in your
hands. Do to me as seems good and right in your eyes.^15 0nly know for
sure that if you put me to death, then you will bring innocent blood upon
yourselves and to this city and to its inhabitants; for in truth, Yahweh sent
me against you to speak in your ears all these words.
(^16) Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets,
'There should be no sentence of death for this man, because in the name of
Yahweh our God he has spoken to us.'^17 And men from among the elders of the
land stood up and said to the entire assembly of the people:
(^18) 'Micah, the Morashtite, was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, king of
Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah:
Thus said Yahweh of hosts:
Zion shall be plowed a field
and Jerusalem shall become stone heaps
And the mountain of the House
high places of a forest.
(^19) Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah indeed put him to death?
Did he not fear Yahweh and soften the face of Yahweh? And did not Yah-
weh repent of the evil that he spoke against them? And we are doing great
evil against ourselves!
- Uriah of Kiriath-jearim: Prophet of Yahweh (26:20-24)
26 20 Also, a man was prophesying mightily in the name of Yahweh-Uriah son
of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. And he prophesied against this city and
against this land like all the words of Jeremiah.^21 And King J ehoiakim heard his
words, also all his officers and all the princes, and the king sought to put him to
death. But Uriah heard of it, and he was afraid and fled, and came to Egypt.
(^22) So King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt-Elnathan son of Achbor and men
with him to Egypt.^23 And they fetched Uriah from Egypt and brought him to