26Soon after Jehoiakim son of Josiah became king of Judah,H7225H4468H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H1697H3068H5592the LORD said to me, "Stand in the court of the Temple and proclaim all I have commanded you to say to the people who come from the towns of Judah to worship there. Do not leave out anything.H559H3068H5975H2691H3068H1004H1696H5892H3063H935H7812H3068H1004H1697H6680H1696H1639H16973Perhaps the people will listen and give up their evil ways. If they do, then I will change my mind about the destruction I plan to bring on them for all their wicked deeds."H8085H7725H376H7451H1870H5162H7451H2803H6213H6440H7455H46114The LORD told me to say to the people, "I, the LORD, have said that you must obey me by following the teaching that I gave you,H559H559H3068H8085H3212H8451H5414H64405and by paying attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I have kept on sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.H8085H1697H5650H5030H7971H7925H7971H80856If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse."H5414H1004H7887H5414H5892H7045H1471H7767The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard me saying these things in the Temple,H3548H5030H5971H8085H3414H1696H1697H1004H30688and as soon as I had finished all that the LORD had commanded me to speak, they grabbed me and shouted, "You ought to be killed for this!H3414H3615H1696H3068H6680H1696H5971H3548H5030H5971H8610H559H4191H41919Why have you said in the LORD's name that this Temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will be destroyed and no one will live in it?" Then the people crowded around me.H5012H8034H3068H559H1004H7887H5892H2717H3427H5971H6950H3414H1004H306810When the leaders of Judah heard what had happened, they hurried from the royal palace to the Temple and took their places at the New Gate.H8269H3063H8085H1697H5927H4428H1004H1004H3068H3427H6607H2319H8179H306811Then the priests and the prophets said to the leaders and to the people, "This man deserves to be sentenced to death because he has spoken against our city. You heard him with your own ears."H559H3548H5030H8269H5971H559H376H4941H4194H5012H5892H8085H24112Then I said, "The LORD sent me to proclaim everything that you heard me say against this Temple and against this city.H559H3414H8269H5971H559H3068H7971H5012H1004H5892H1697H808513You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and must obey the LORD your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.H3190H1870H4611H8085H6963H3068H430H3068H5162H7451H169614As for me, I am in your power! Do with me whatever you think is fair and right.H3027H6213H5869H2896H347715But be sure of this: if you kill me, you and the people of this city will be guilty of killing an innocent man, because it is the LORD who sent me to give you this warning."H3045H3045H4191H5414H5355H1818H5892H3427H571H3068H7971H1696H1697H24116Then the leaders and the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man spoke to us in the name of the LORD our God; he should not be put to death."H559H8269H5971H3548H5030H376H4941H4194H1696H8034H3068H43017After that, some of the elders stood up and said to the people who had gathered,H6965H582H2205H776H559H6951H5971H55918"When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the LORD Almighty had said, 'Zion will be plowed like a field; Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.'H4320H4183H5012H3117H2396H4428H3063H559H5971H3063H559H559H3068H6635H6726H2790H7704H3389H5856H2022H1004H1116H329319King Hezekiah and the people of Judah did not put Micah to death. Instead, Hezekiah honored the LORD and tried to win his favor. And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he said he would bring on them. Now we are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves."H2396H4428H3063H3063H4191H4191H3373H3068H2470H3068H6440H3068H5162H7451H1696H587H6213H1419H7451H531520(There was another man, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim, who spoke in the name of the LORD against this city and nation just as Jeremiah did.H376H5012H8034H3068H223H1121H8098H7157H5012H5892H776H1697H341421When King Jehoiakim and his soldiers and officials heard what Uriah had said, the king tried to have him killed. But Uriah heard about it; so he fled in terror and escaped to Egypt.H3079H4428H1368H8269H8085H1697H4428H1245H4191H223H8085H3372H1272H935H471422King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men to Egypt to get Uriah.H3079H4428H7971H582H4714H494H1121H5907H582H471423They brought him back to King Jehoiakim, who had him killed and his body thrown into the public burial ground.)H3318H223H4714H935H3079H4428H5221H2719H7993H5038H6913H1121H597124But because I had the support of Ahikam son of Shaphan, I was not handed over to the people and killed.H3027H296H1121H8227H3414H5414H3027H5971H4191