7So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house (Temple) of the LORD. 8But as soon as Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to tell all the people, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die. 9Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house (Temple) shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate and deserted?” And all the people came together against Jeremiah in the Temple of the LORD. 10When the officials of Judah heard of this, then they came up from the king's palace to the Temple of the LORD, and sat down in the entrance of the new gate to the LORD's house (Temple). 11Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves to die; for he has prophesied against this city. You heard it with your own ears.” 12Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house (Temple) and against this city all these words that you have heard. 13Therefore, now, mend your ways and your actions, and obey the voice of the LORD, your God, and the LORD will relent and not implement all that He has decreed against you. 14But as for me, I am in your hands; do with me whatever seems good and right to you. 15But be assured that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring the guilt of innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.” 16Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve to die; for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD, our God.” 17Then some of the elders of the land rose up, and said to all the assembly of the people, 18”Micah, the Morasthite, prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and told all the people of Judah, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the Temple hill of the house will be overgrown with thickets like a forest’. 19Did Hezekiah, and all Judah put Micah to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD, and seek the favor of the LORD, and the LORD relented of the evil which He had pronounced against them? We risk bringing disaster upon ourselves and our souls.

20And there was also a man, Urijah, son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim, who prophesied in the name of the LORD against this city and this land the same things as did Jeremiah. 21And when Jehoiakim, the king, with all his officers and officials, heard his words, the king was determined to put Urijah to death; but when he heard of it, Urijah was afraid, and fled into Egypt. 22And King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt, namely, Elnathan, the son of Achbor, with certain other men into Egypt; 23And they fetched Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him before King Jehoiakim, who had him killed with the sword, and had his dead body thrown into the burial place of common people. 24Nevertheless, Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, was in support of Jeremiah, so that he was not handed over to the people to be put him to death.”