16 Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, ‘This man should not be sentenced to death! He has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.’

17 Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly of people, 18 ‘Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, “This is what the Lord Almighty says:

‘“Zion will be ploughed like a field,
    Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
    the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 26:18 Micah 3:12