Shemaiah’s letter

24And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say, saying,

25Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

26Yahweh has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be overseers in the house of Yahweh over every man who is mad and acts as a prophet, and you should put him into the stocks and the neck iron.

27And now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah the Anathothite, who is prophesying to you?

28For this reason he sent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘It will be a long time. Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.’

29Then Zephaniah the priest read this scroll in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.