Jeremiah 36
1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that
I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the
nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this
day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I
purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that
I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote
from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto
him, upon a roll of a book.
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go
into the house of the LORD:
6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written
from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's
house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all
Judah that come out of their cities.
7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD,
and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury
that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah
the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the
LORD's house.
9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the
LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the
cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house
of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the
higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of
all the people.
11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard
out of the book all the words of the LORD,
12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even 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 princes.
13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had
heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the
son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the
roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the
son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
So Baruch read it in their ears.
16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they
were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the
king of all these words.
17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write
all these words at his mouth?
18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me
with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up
the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the
ears of the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of
Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and
in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four
leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the
hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the
king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear
them.
26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king
had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,
saying,
28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former
words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath
burned.
29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying,
The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause
to cease from thence man and beast?
30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He
shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast
out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but
they hearkened not.
32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the
words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and
there were added besides unto them many like words.
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