Jeremiah 26 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, has this word been from Yahweh, saying:"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, has this word been from Yahweh, saying:" ² `Thus said Yahweh, Stand you in the court of the house of Yahweh, and you have spoken unto all [those of] the cities of Judah who are coming in to bow themselves in the house of Yahweh, all the words that I have commanded you to speak unto them, you do not diminish a word." ³ If so be they hearken, and turn back each from his evil way, then I have repented concerning the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, because of the evil of their doings." ⁴ `And you have said unto them:Thus said Yahweh, If you do not hearken unto Me, to walk in My law, that I set before you, ⁵ To hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I am sending unto you, yea, rising early and sending, and you have not hearkened, ⁶ Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.'" ⁷ And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, hear Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Yahweh, ⁸ And it comes to pass, at the completion of Jeremiah's speaking all that Yahweh has commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests, and the prophets, and all the people catch him, saying, You do surely die, ⁹ Wherefore have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, `As Shiloh this house shall be, and this city is wasted, without inhabitant?' and all the people are assembled unto Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh." ¹⁰ And the heads of Judah hear these things, and they go up from the house of the king [to] the house of Yahweh, and sit in the opening of the new gate of Yahweh." ¹¹ And the priests and the prophets speak unto the heads, and unto all the people, saying, `Judgment of death [is] for this man, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.'" ¹² And Jeremiah speaks unto all the heads, and unto all the people, saying, `Yahweh sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city, all the words that you have heard;" ¹³ And now, amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, and Yahweh does repent concerning the evil that He has spoken against you." ¹⁴ `And I, lo, I [am] in your hand, do to me as is good and as is right in your eyes;" ¹⁵ Only, know you certainly, that if you are putting me to death, surely innocent blood you are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly has Yahweh sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.'" ¹⁶ And the heads and all the people say unto the priests and unto the prophets, `There is not for this man a judgment of death, for in the name of Yahweh our Elohim he has spoken unto us.'" ¹⁷ And certain of the elders of the land rise up, and speak unto all the assembly of the people, saying, ¹⁸ `Micah the Morashtite has been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he said unto all the people of Judah, saying:Thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest." ¹⁹ `Put him at all to death did Hezekiah king of Judah, and all Judah? Did he not fear Yahweh? yea, he appeases the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh repents concerning the evil that He spoke against them; and we are doing great evil against our souls." ²⁰ `And also there has been a man prophesying in the name of Yahweh, Urijah son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath-Jearim, and he prophesies against this city, and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah, ²¹ And the king Jehoiakim, and all his mighty ones, and all the heads, hear his words, and the king seeks to put him to death, and Urijah hears, and fears, and flees, and goes in to Egypt." ²² And the king Jehoiakim sends men to Egypt--Elnathan son of Achbor, and men with him unto Egypt--" ²³ And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smites him with a sword, and casts his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.'" ²⁴ Only, the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan has been with Jeremiah so as not to give him up into the hand of the people to put him to death."