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The Lord’s Response to Shemaiah’s Letter

24 Tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite 25 that this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says.

You have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, to Zephaniah son of Ma’aseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, and you told them the following:

26 The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there will be officers[a] in the Lord’s house who can deal with every crazy man who calls himself a prophet. You should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 29:26 Or an officer