_PERSONAL UTTERANCES AND NARRATIVES_ CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: JEHOAHAZ. xxii. 10-12 3 "Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more."--xxii, 10 CHAPTER II A TRIAL FOR HERESY. xxvi.: cf. vii.-x. 10 "When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die."--xxvi. 8 CHAPTER III THE ROLL. xxxvi. 28 "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee."--xxxvi. 2 CHAPTER IV THE RECHABITES. xxxv. 44 "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before Me for ever."--xxxv. 19 CHAPTER V BARUCH. xlv. 54 "Thy life will I give unto thee for a prey."--xlv. 5 CHAPTER VI THE JUDGMENT ON JEHOIAKIM. xxii. 13-19, xxxvi. 30, 31 63 "Jehoiakim ... slew him (Uriah) with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people."--xxvi. 23 "Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim, ... He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem."--xxii. 18, 19 Jehoiakim ... did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.--2 KINGS xxiii. 36, 37 CHAPTER VII JEHOIACHIN. xxii. 20-30 80 "A despised broken vessel."--xxii. 28 "A young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men."--EZEK. xix. 5, 6 "Jehoiachin ... did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father had done."--2 KINGS xxiv. 8, 9 CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS. xxiii.; xxiv. 96 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"--xxii. 1 "Of what avail is straw instead of grain?... Is not My word like fire, ... like a hammer that shattereth the rocks?"--xxiii. 28, 29 CHAPTER IX HANANIAH. xxvii., xxviii. 115 "Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie."--xxviii. 15 CHAPTER X