He told David,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live.<n id="2" /> Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath, and Benaiah worked under the supervision of Konaniah and his brother Shimei, as directed by King Hezekiah and Azariah, the supervisor of God&#8217;s temple.p>

When they had heard it all,<n id="1" /> they expressed their alarm to one another.<n id="2" /> Then they said to Baruch, &#8220;We must certainly give the king a report about everything you have read!&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">So know and understand:p> <p class="poetry">From the issuing of the command<n id="1" /> to restore and rebuildp> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem<n id="2" /> until an anointed one, a prince arrives,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">there will be a period of seven weeks<n id="4" /> and sixty-two weeks.p> <p class="poetry">It will again be built,<n id="5" /> with plaza and moat,p> <p class="poetry">but in distressful times.p>

<p class="poetry">Now after the sixty-two weeks,p> <p class="poetry">an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">As for the city and the sanctuary,p> <p class="poetry">the people of the coming prince will destroy<n id="2" /> them.p> <p class="poetry">But his end will come speedily<n id="3" /> like a flood.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Until the end of the war that has been decreedp> <p class="poetry">there will be destruction.p>