ocr: Prophet's Perils - Jeremiah 38 whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, tamine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Dabyionians will live. (Jer. 38:2) Jeremiah had good reason for being a weeping, balky prophet. Four kings succeeded Josiah, and each of them gave the prophet a hard time. One king scheduled a private reading of Jeremian's prophecies in his winter apartment. As each scroll was read, the king casually hacked it to pieces with a knife and tossed it into the fireplace 36:23). On other occasions the prophet himself was peaten and put in stocks, or locked in a dungeon, or, ...