Jeremiah 26:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ Then the leaders and the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man spoke to us in the name of the Lord our God; he should not be put to death.”

¹⁷ After that, some of the elders stood up and said to the people who had gathered, ^18 (A)“When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the Lord Almighty had said,

and the Temple hill will become a forest.’