Now<n id="1" /> let me give you some advice as to how<n id="2" /> you can save your life and your son Solomon&#8217;s life.

Now listen to me,<n id="1" /> I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God,<n id="2" /> and you bring<n id="3" /> their disputes<n id="4" /> to God;

And now, I am about to go<n id="1" /> back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, &#8220;If I answer you, you will certainly kill me.<n id="1" /> If I give you advice, you will not listen to me.&#8221;