When the princes of Yhudah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of YY , and sat down in the entry of the new gate of YY 's house.
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Yirmeyah-yahu in the house of YY , in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of YY 's house, in the ears of all the people.
The princes of Yhudah, and the princes of Yerushalayim, the eunuchs, and the kohanim, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Yirmeyah-yahu, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of YY .
And when Yhoyakhim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when UriYAH heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.