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Chapter 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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, |
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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. |
