King James Version with Apocrypha
"Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,"
— Jeremiah 26:17, King James Version with Apocrypha
“Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,”
“Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, ”
“Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,”
“Then some of the elders of Judah stepped forward and spoke to all the people gathered there. They said,”
“And some of the ancients of the land rose up: and they spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:”
“Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,”
As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath–jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah: