Jeremiah 26

Jeremiah then goes before the temple courtyard and says similar things to the people directly.  They respond with hostility and want to kill him.  Their rationale is not completely explained in the text, but it seems to be that they think he is a false prophet because he is prophesying against Jerusalem.  Jerusalem was God's city and the temple was where God resided, therefore how could God allow its destruction?  That seems to be what they want.

That said, they would be within the law by killing a false prophet.  But if Jeremiah is a prophet of God, then it would be innocent blood and they would only be demonstrating why Jerusalem should be "plowed over".  What a conundrum.

The king himself hears of this and wants Jeremiah killed.  We do not completely know the chronological connection with chapter above.  This may have been the first time the king heard of this or perhaps he had already heard the previous prophecy, let Jeremiah live, and is now mad that Jeremiah is causing trouble in the city.  

Jeremiah's life is eventually spared, but we hear about another prophet of God, Uriah.  Uriah made similar prophecies, the people got mad, and Uriah fled to Egypt.  There, he was tracked down and brought back to Jerusalem and was killed.  Two things come to mind about him:

1.  I think he is the second prophet who was actually killed.  The first was High Priest Zechariah who adopted the boy king Joash years before.  Later, Christ refers to a tradition of the Israelites killing prophets who brought bad news.

2.  The Bible mentions other prophets of God in passing whose prophecies were not canonized within the Bible. Other notable ones included the seers/ prophets of David, Gad and Nathan.  However, their stories may have been incorporated as the book of 2 Samuel.  But we do not know.  

I mention this because one school of thought in contemporary Christianity is that prophecy does not exist today because if it did, the revelation should be canonized as scripture.  The logic goes that since the canon is closed, therefore prophecy does not exist today.  Here, we have a demonstration within the Bible itself that not all prophecies or revelations from God were incorporated and canonized within the Bible.  If it were the case, we would know a lot more about Uriah, Gad, and Nathan.