13. So now transform your ways and actions. Obey the Lord your God, and the Lord may relent and not carry out the harm that he’s pronounced against you.
14. But me? I’m in your hands. Do whatever you would like to me.
15. Only know for certain that if you sentence me to death, you and the people of this city will be guilty of killing an innocent man. The Lord has in fact sent me to speak everything I have said to you."
16. Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man doesn’t deserve to die, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God."
17. A few of the community elders got up and addressed the whole crowd:
18. "Micah of Moresheth, who prophesied during the rule of Judah’s Hezekiah, said to all the people of Judah, ‘The Lord of heavenly forces proclaims:Zion will be plowed down like a field,Jerusalem will become piles of rubble,and the temple mount will become an overgrown mound.’
19. “Did King Hezekiah or anyone else in Judah execute him? Didn’t he instead fear the Lord and plead for his mercy? Then the Lord relented of the harm that he had pronounced against them. We are about to commit a huge mistake that will cost us our lives."
20. There was another man who prophesied in the Lord’s name: Uriah, Shemaiah’s son from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied the same things that Jeremiah did about this city and against this land.