Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth (month), in the fifth (day) of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.