15. Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
16. Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
17. Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
18. “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘the Lord of Hosts says:“‘Zion will be ploughed as a field,and Jerusalem will 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 to death? Didn’t he fear the Lord, and entreat the favour of the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”
20. There was also a man who prophesied in the Lord’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
21. When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.
22. Then Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;
23. and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.