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    Jeremiah 36

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    Jehoiakim feeds the scroll to the fire three or four columns at a time, and the ashes have scarcely settled before Jeremiah is told to write it again—with many similar words added.

    A scroll for the fasting peoplevv. 1–10

    In the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the LORD tells Jeremiah to gather every word spoken to him from Josiah’s reign until that day: words concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations. The hope is that Judah, hearing of the calamity ahead, may turn and be forgiven. Jeremiah cannot enter the house of the LORD, so Baruch writes at his dictation and reads the scroll aloud on a day of fasting. By the fifth year, the reading takes place from Gemariah’s chamber at the opening of the New Gate, before the people gathered in Jerusalem.

    The officials hear it twicevv. 11–20

    Micaiah hears the reading and goes down to the scribes’ chamber in the king’s palace, where Elishama, Delaiah, Elnathan, Gemariah, Zedekiah, and the other officials are sitting. They summon Baruch and have him read the scroll again. Fear arrives before the king does: they decide that every word must be reported, ask whether Jeremiah dictated it, and then tell Baruch and Jeremiah to hide. The scroll is stored in Elishama’s chamber, which is a sensible place for a dangerous document, at least until the king asks for it.

    The firepot and the second scrollvv. 21–32

    Jehudi fetches the scroll and reads it before Jehoiakim and the officials. The king is in his winter quarters, with a fire burning before him; after every three or four columns, he cuts off another piece and drops it into the firepot. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urge him to stop, but the king continues until the whole scroll is gone. The king and his servants show no fear, while the officials had feared at the first hearing. Jehoiakim then orders the seizure of Baruch and Jeremiah, though they are hidden. The word comes again: another scroll is to be written, the burned words restored, and many similar words added.

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    1. Jer 36:1In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

    2. Jer 36:2“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.

    3. Jer 36:3Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

    4. Jer 36:4So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.

    5. Jer 36:5Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;

    6. Jer 36:6so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.

    7. Jer 36:7Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”

    8. Jer 36:8So Baruch son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. In the house of the LORD he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.

    9. Jer 36:9Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.

    10. Jer 36:10From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.

    11. Jer 36:11When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,

    12. Jer 36:12he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

    13. Jer 36:13And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.

    14. Jer 36:14Then all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, “Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come here.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.

    15. Jer 36:15“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.

    16. Jer 36:16When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

    17. Jer 36:17“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”

    18. Jer 36:18“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”

    19. Jer 36:19Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”

    20. Jer 36:20So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king.

    21. Jer 36:21Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.

    22. Jer 36:22Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.

    23. Jer 36:23And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

    24. Jer 36:24Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.

    25. Jer 36:25Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

    26. Jer 36:26Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.

    27. Jer 36:27After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

    28. Jer 36:28“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

    29. Jer 36:29You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’

    30. Jer 36:30Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.

    31. Jer 36:31I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

    32. Jer 36:32Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

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    • 3Jeremiah 18:8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
    • 2Jeremiah 30:2“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
    • 3Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
    • 22Amos 3:15I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
    • 32Jeremiah 36:4So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
    • 1Jeremiah 25:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
    • 2Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
    • 2Jeremiah 36:6so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.
    • 3Jeremiah 26:3Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
    • 3Deuteronomy 30:2and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
    • 4Jeremiah 32:12and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
    • 7Jeremiah 36:3Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
    • 92 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
    • 10Jeremiah 36:11When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,
    • 12Jeremiah 26:22Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor along with some other men.
    • 20Jeremiah 36:12he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

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