Jeremiah 29:24-26

Lexham English Bible

Shemaiah’s Letter to Zephaniah the Priest

²⁴ And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say, saying,^{[a] 25} “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,^[b] ‘Because you yourself sent a letter^[c] in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,^{[d] 26} “Yahweh made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there are overseers in the house of Yahweh over any mad man who exhibits the behavior of a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the neck iron,