People Conspire Against Zechariah

^20 (A)Now the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘^(B)Why do you trespass against the commandments of Yahweh and do not succeed? ^(C)Because you have forsaken Yahweh, He has also forsaken you.’” ²¹ So ^(D)they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him ^[a]to death in the court of the house of Yahweh.

² “^(A)Stand in the gate of the house of Yahweh, and you shall call out there this word, and you shall say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship Yahweh!’”

¹⁴ Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the ^(A)court of the house of Yahweh and said to all the people: