Re'uven said to them, *Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him*--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
Then said the princes and all the people to the Kohanim and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
Then read Barukh in the book the words of Yirmeyahu in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemaryah the son of Shafan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], Elishama the scribe, and Delayah the son of Shemayah, and Elnatan the son of `Akhbor, and Gemaryah the son of Shafan, and Tzidkiyahu the son of Chananyah, and all the princes.