‘Jehovah himself has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, in order to become the grand overseer of the house of Jehovah toward any man maddened and behaving like a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the pillory;

Jer. 29:24-28; compare Jeremiah 29:4-6.

16. What did the temple’s “grand overseer” do with the letter from Shemaiah, and what was Jeremiah then inspired to prophesy about Shemaiah?

¹⁶ However, on receipt of Shemaiah’s letter, the priest Zephaniah did not, as “grand overseer” of the temple, put Jeremiah into the stocks and the pillory.