16–19: The officials and the people defend Jeremiah by pointing to the prophecy of Micah the Morashtite (Mic. 1:1), who
prophesied in the time of Hezekiah that Jerusalem would be destroyed. Micah’s
condemnation of Jerusalem appears in Mic. 3:12 with slightly different wording.
They argue that because Hezekiah repented as a result of Micah’s threat, the city
was saved (cf. Isa. chs 36–37; 2 Kings chs 18–20, which portrays Isaiah’s role
in the deliverance of Jerusalem in Hezekiah’s time). Jeremiah therefore should
not be killed because he acts like Micah to save the city, and prophesying
against Jerusalem should not be viewed as either false prophecy or treasonous.
(The Jewish Study Bible, ed. Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, and
Michael Fishbane [New York: Oxford University Press, 2004], 980)
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