Jeremiah 26:17
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
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15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Yahuah has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man not worthy to die: for he has spoken to us in the name of the Yahuah our Elohim.
17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the Yahuah of hosts; Zion shall be plowed a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Yahuah, and besought the Yahuah, and the Yahuah repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.