I faithfully carried out the instructions of the man of God. The Lord had given this man of God a message; but he needed me to write it down and to then go and read it out loud in the house of the Lord, in order to give a warning to God's people, a warning to repent of their iniquity.
"Stand at the gate of the LORD's house and there proclaim this message: " 'Hear the word of the LORD , all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD .
well........let me put it this way: most of Jeremiah, the book, is prophetic; but some of it is recorded history. The answer is in the part of Jeremiah which is "history"
I fell backwards off my seat and died, when I heard the news about my two sons who were killed in battle, and about the Ark of the Covenant, which had been captured.
1 Samuel 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.