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For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
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Also I spake to the priests and to all this people,saying, Thus saith the LORD;Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'Shouse shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
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But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORDbe with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem,go not to Babylon.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
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Which Nebuchadnezzarking of Babylontook not, when he carried away captiveJeconiah the son of Jehoiakimking of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;