14. As for me, I am in your power! Do with me whatever you think is fair and right.
15. But be sure of this: if you kill me, you and the people of this city will be guilty of killing an innocent man, because it is the Lord who sent me to give you this warning.”
16. Then the leaders and the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man spoke to us in the name of the Lord our God; he should not be put to death.”
17. After that, some of the elders stood up and said to the people who had assembled,
18. “When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the Lord Almighty had said,‘Zion will be ploughed like a field,Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins,and the Temple hill will become a forest.’