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them: keepe not a worde backe, If so be they taine of the Elders of the lande, and spake to all
will hearken, and turne euery man from his euill the assemblie of the people, saying, 18 Michah the
way, that I may repent me of the plague, which Morashite prophecied in the dayes of Hezekiah
I haue determined to bring vpon them, because king of Iudah, and spake to al the people of Iudah,
of the wickednesse of their workes. 4 And thou saying, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Zion shall
shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, If ye be plowed like a fielde, and Ierusalem shalbe an
will not heare me to walke in my Lawes, which heape, and the mountaine of the House shalbe as
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I haue set before you, And to heare ye wordes the hie places of the forest. 19 Did Hezekiah King
of my seruants the Prophets, whome I sent vnto of Iudah, and all Iudah put him to death? did he
you, both rising vp earely, and sending them, and not feare ye Lord, and prayed before the Lord,
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will not obey them, Then will I make this House and the Lord repented him of the plague, that
like Shiloh, and will make this citie a curse to all he had pronounced against them? Thus might
the nations of the earth. 7 So the Priestes, and we procure great euill against our soules. 20 And
the Prophets, and all the people heard Ieremiah therewasalsoamanthatpropheciedintheName
speaking these wordes in the House of the Lord. of the Lord, one Vriiah the sonne of Shemaiah,
8 Nowe when Ieremiah had made an end of speak- of Kiriath-iarem, who prophecied against this
ing all that the Lord had commanded him to citie, and against this lande, according to all the
speake vnto all the people, then the Priestes, wordes of Ieremiah. 21 Nowe when Iehoiakim the
and the prophets, and all the people tooke him, King with all his men of power, and all the princes
and saide, Thou shalt die the death. 9 Why hast heard his wordes, the King sought to slay him.
thou prophecied in the Name of the Lord, saying, But when Vriiah heard it, he was afraide and fled,
This House shall be like Shiloh, and this citie and went into Egypt. 22 Then Iehoiakim the King
shalbe desolate without an inhabitant? and all sent men into Egypt, euen Elnathan the sonne of
the people were gathered against Ieremiah in the Achbor, and certaine with him into Egypt. 23 And
House of the Lord. 10 And when the princes of they fet Vriiah out of Egypt, and brought him
Iudah heard of these things, they came vp from vnto Iehoiakim the King, who slew him with the
the Kings house into the House of the Lord, and sword, and cast his dead bodie into the graues of
sate downe in the entrie of the new gate of the the children of the people. 24 But the hande of
Lords House. 11 Then spake the Priestes, and the Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan was with Ieremiah
prophets vnto the princes, and to all the people, that they shoulde not giue him into the hande of
saying, This man is worthie to die: for he hath the people to put him to death.
prophecied against this citie, as ye haue heard
with your eares. 12 Then spake Ieremiah vnto all
the princes, and to al the people, saying, The Lord 27
hath sent me to prophecie against this house and
against this citie all the things that ye haue heard. 1 In the beginning of the reigne of Iehoiakim
13 Therefore nowe amende your wayes and your the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah came this worde
workes, and heare the voyce of the Lord your vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, saying, Thus saith
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God, that the Lord may repent him of the plague, the Lord to me, Make thee bonds, and yokes, and
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that he hath pronounced against you. 14 As for put them vpon thy necke, And send them to the
me, beholde, I am in your hands: do with me as King of Edom, and to the King of Moab, and to
ye thinke good and right. 15 But knowe ye for the King of the Ammonites, and to the King of
certaine, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hande
bring innocent blood vpon your selues, and vpon of the messengers which come to Ierusale vnto
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this citie, and vpon the inhabitants thereof: for Zedekiah ye king of Iudah, And commande them
of a trueth the Lord hath sent me vnto you, to to saye vnto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of
speake all these words in your eares. 16 Then hostes the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say vnto
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saide the princes and all the people vnto the your masters, I haue made the earth, the man,
Priestes, and to the prophets, This man is not and the beast that are vpon the groud, by my
worthie to die: for he hath spoken vnto vs in the great power, and by my outstreched arme, and
Name of the Lord our God. 17 Then rose vp cer- haue giuen it vnto whom it pleased me. 6 But
nowe I haue giuen all these landes into the hand