Jeremiah Spared from Death

Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets,“This man [is] not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”

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Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people 18 “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says:

‘Zion will be plowed like a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,

and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’[fn]

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Did Hezekiah king of Judah [or] anyone else in Judah put him to death Did [Hezekiah] not fear the LORD and seek [His] favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

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