17. Don’t listen to those prophets. Serve the king of Babylon. Accept your punishment, and you will live. There is no reason for you to cause this city of Jerusalem to be destroyed.
18. If they are prophets and their message is from the Lord, let them pray. Let them pray to the Lord about the things that are still in the Lord’S Temple, in the king’s palace, and in Jerusalem. Let them pray that all those things will not be taken away to Babylon.
19. “This is what the Lord All-Powerful says about the things that are still left in Jerusalem. In the Temple, there are the pillars, the bronze sea, the moveable stands, and other things. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon left those things in Jerusalem.
20. He didn’t take them away when he took Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah away as a prisoner. Nebuchadnezzar also took other important people away from Judah and Jerusalem.
21. This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says about the things still left in the Lord’S Temple and in the king’s palace and in Jerusalem: