Cp.
Jer 2617-19. The people of Jerusalem’s time, angered by his
prophecies of disaster, wished to put him to death. Some of the elders reminded
them that, when Micah denounced a like judgment, Hezekiah, instead of killing
him, repented at his words, and so averted the disaster. This implies that the religious
minds of that time recognized how true prophecy is always conditional on the
attitude men take to them. (A Commentary on the Holy Bible, ed. J. R.
Dummelow [New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1908], 581)