23. because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says the Lord.
24. Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
25. “The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26. “The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the Lord’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
27. Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
28. because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”