JEREMIAH 36

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Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah's Scroll

   1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah

king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the

LORD:   2 "Take a scroll and write on it all the words I

have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all

the other nations from the time I began speaking to

you in the reign of Josiah till now.   3 Perhaps when

the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan

to inflict on them, they will each turn from their

wicked ways; then I will forgive their wickedness

and their sin."

   4 So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and

while Jeremiah dictated all the words the LORD had

spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.

5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch, "I am restricted; I am

not allowed to go to the LORD's temple.   6 So you go

to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD

that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the

people of Judah who come in from their towns.

7 Perhaps they will bring their petition before the

LORD and will each turn from their wicked ways, for

the anger and wrath pronounced against this people

by the LORD are great."

   8 Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the

prophet told him to do; at the LORD's temple he read the

words of the LORD from the scroll.   9 In the ninth month

of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of

Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed

for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had

come from the towns of Judah.   10 From the room of

Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in

the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of

the temple, Baruch read to all the people at the LORD's

temple the words of Jeremiah from the scroll.

   11 When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of

Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the

scroll,   12 he went down to the secretary's room in the

royal palace, where all the officials were sitting:

Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah,

Elnathan son of Akbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan,

Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

13 After Micaiah told them everything he had heard

Baruch read to the people from the scroll,   14 all the

officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of

Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, "Bring

the scroll from which you have read to the people and

come." So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the

scroll in his hand.   15 They said to him, "Sit down, please

and read it to us."
   So Baruch read it to them.   16 When they heard all

these words, they looked at each other in fear and said

to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."

17 Then they asked Baruch, "Tell us, how did you come

to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it?"

   18 "Yes," Baruch replied, "he dictated all these words

to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll."

   19 Then the officials said to Baruch, "You and

Jeremiah, go and hide. Don't let anyone know where

you are."

   20 After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama

the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard

and reported everything to him.   21 The king sent Jehudi

to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of

Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all

the officials standing beside him.   22 It was the ninth

month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment,

with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him.

23 Whenever Jehudi had read three of four columns of

the scroll, the king cut them off with a scrilbe's knife and

threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was

burned in the fire.   24 The king and all his attendants

who heard all these these words showed no fear, nor did they

tear their clothes.   25 Even though Elanthan, Delaiah and

Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he

would not listen to them.   26 Instead, the king

commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son

of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch

the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had

hidden them.

   27 After the king burned the scroll containing the

words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation,

the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:   28 "Take

another scroll and write on it all the words that were on

the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned

up.   29 Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, 'This is what

the LORD says: You burned that scroll and said, "Why did

you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly

come and destroy this land and wipe from it both man

and beast?"   30 Threfore this is what the LORD says

about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to

sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out

and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.

31 I will punish him and his children and his attendants

for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those

living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every

disaster I pronounced against them, because they have

not listened.' "

   32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the

scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated,

Baruch 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.