4. Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
5. Then they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
6. Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will hear the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that, obeying the voice of the Lord our God, it may be well with us.
7. And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah.
8. Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,