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'I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a horror and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nationswhere* I have driven them,
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because* they have not listened to My words,' declares the LORD, 'which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,' declares the LORD.
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"Thussays the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerningAhab the son of Kolaiah and concerningZedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name, 'Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzarking of Babylon, and he will slay them before your eyes.
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'Because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judahwho are in Babylon, saying, "May the LORDmake you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylonroasted in the fire,
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because* they have actedfoolishly in Israel, and have committedadultery with their neighbors'wives and have spokenwords in My namefalsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness," declares the LORD.' "
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To Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
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"Thussays the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because* you have sentletters in your own name to all the peoplewho are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
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"The LORD has made you priestinstead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer in the house of the LORD over everymadman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the ironcollar,