| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
