Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things that are not proper.
The men said to her, “Our life for y’all’s, if y’all don’t report our mission. Then, when YHWH gives us the land, we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”
Then all the officials came to Jeremiah, and asked him, and he said to them all the words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him, because their conversation had not been heard.