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And also you shall read them in the hearing of all <i>the people of</i> Judah who come from their cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Perhaps their supplication will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>come before Yahweh, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has spoken against this people.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of Yahweh in the house of Yahweh. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem called for a fast before Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the house of Yahweh, in the hearing of all the people. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of Yahweh from the book. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there—Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the <i>other</i> officials. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book in the hearing of the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And they said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now it happened that when they heard all the words, they turned in dread one to another and said to Baruch, “We will surely declare all these words to the king.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they asked Baruch, saying, “Declare to us, please, how did you write all these words? <i>Was it</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>at his dictation?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Baruch said to them, “He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.” <p class="hdg">The Scroll Is Burned</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they declared all the words in the hearing of the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king as well as in the hearing of all the officials who stood beside the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with <i>a fire</i> burning in the brazier before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And it happened that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, <i>the king</i> cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw <i>it</i> into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not in dread, nor did they tear their garments. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah interceded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh hid them. <p class="hdg">The Scroll Is Replaced</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>that the king of Babylon will certainly come and make this land a ruin and will make man and beast to cease from it?’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And I will also punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the evil that I have spoken about to them—but they did not listen.”’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>similar words were added to them.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>to do</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>scroll of a book</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>from the mouth of</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>shut up</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>from my mouth</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>in the ears of</i>, so in this context<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>fall</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>from his mouth</i>, so in this context<br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>came to an end</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Lit <i>saying</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Lit <i>like those</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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