The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but YHWH hid them.
“Y’all are to go back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and investigate, consider, and search all its wide places. If y’all can find one person, if there is anyone who does justice and seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that YHWH had shown to David, to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed YHWH’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of YHWH’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
See, my father! Look at the edge of your robe in my hand! I cut off the edge of your robe but didn’t kill you. So realize and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.