Should such a man as I flee?] He doubted not but God was able to preserve him, and knew that if he had obeyed the counsell of Shemaiah, he should have discouraged all the people: and also, that the enemies might have come in (for the gates were yet open, v. 1.) and have taken the city, while he lay hid in the temple. Thus God giveth wisdom to his, to prevent the hurt that might come by false prophecies, though they seem to have never so great probability: or else he thought it unlawfull for him, being not a priest, to come into the temple, Numbers 3:38.