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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 36 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/36.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/36-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Jeremiah 36</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/35.htm" title="Jeremiah 35">◄</a> Jeremiah 36 <a href="../jeremiah/37.htm" title="Jeremiah 37">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/36.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah’s Scroll</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that he had spoken to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, “I am banned from going to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>so you are to go, and on a day of fasting in the hearing of all the people in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s house you shall read the words of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> from the scroll that you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has pronounced against this people.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s house.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s house.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> from the scroll, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>he went down to the king’s house, into the secretary’s chamber, and all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the officials. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And they said to him, “Sit down and read it.” So Baruch read it to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words to the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary. And Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house, and there was a fire burning in the fire pot before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> hid them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Jeremiah: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the people of Judah all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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