The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Jeremiah 36
1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to
Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 “Take a scroll of a book, and write in
it all the words that I have spoken to you
against Israel, against Judah, and against
all the nations, from the day I spoke to you,
from the days of Josiah even to this day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will
hear all the evil which I intend to do to
them, that they may each return 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 Yahweh’s words, which he
had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying,
“I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s
house.
6 Therefore you go, and read from the
scroll which you have written from my
mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the
people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day.
Also you shall read them in the ears of all
Judah who come out of their cities.
7 It may be they will present their
supplication before Yahweh, and will each
return from his evil way; for Yahweh has
pronouncedgreat anger and wrathagainst
this people.”
8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that
Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,
reading in the book Yahweh’s words in Yahweh’s house.
9 Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth
month, all the people in Jerusalem and
all the people who came from the cities
of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast
before Yahweh.
10 Then Baruch read the words of
Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s
house, in the room of Gemariah the son
of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court,
at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s
house, in the ears of all the people.
11 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah,
the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the
book all Yahweh’s words,
12 he went down into the king’s house,
into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the
princes were sitting there, Elishama the
scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah,
Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the
son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of
Hananiah, and all the princes.
13 Then Micaiah declared to 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 sonofNethaniah,the sonof Shelemiah,
the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take
in your hand the scroll in which you have
read in the ears of the people, and come.”
So Baruch the son of Neriah took the
scroll in his hand, and came to them.
15 They said to him, “Sit down now, and
read it in our hearing.”
So Baruch read it in their hearing.
16 Now when they had heard all the
words, they turned in fear one toward
another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely
tell the king of all these words.”
17 They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us
now, how did you write all these words at
his mouth?”
18 Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated
allthese words to me with his mouth,
and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
19 Then the princes said to Baruch, “You
and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone
know where you are.”
20 They went in to the king into the court,
but they had laid up the scroll in the room
of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all
the words in the hearing of the king.
21 So the king sentJehudito getthe scroll,
and he took it out of the room of Elishama
the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing
of the king, and in the hearing of all the
princes who stood beside the king.
22 Now the king was sitting in the winter
house in the ninth month, and there was a
fire in the brazier burning before him.
23 When Jehudi had read three or four
columns, the king cut it with the penknife,
and cast it into the fire that was in the
brazier, until all the scroll was consumed
in the fire that was in the brazier.
24 The king and his servants who heard
all these words were not afraid, and didn’t
tear their garments.
25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and
Gemariah had made intercession to the
king that he would not burn the scroll; but
he would not listen to them.
26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the
king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel,
and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel,
to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the
prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
27 Then Yahweh’s word came to
Jeremiah, after the king had burned the
scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote
at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 “Take again another scroll, and write
in it all the former words that were in the
first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of
Judah has burned.
29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah
you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have
burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you
written therein, saying, “The king
of Babylon will certainly
come and destroy this
land, and will cause
to cease from there
man and animal”?
30 Therefore Yahweh says concerning
Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no
one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body
will be cast out in the day to the heat, and
in the night to the frost.
31 I willpunishhim, his offspring, andhis
servants for their iniquity. I will bring on
them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them, but they didn’t
listen.
32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll,
and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of
Neriah, who wrote thereinfromthemouth
of Jeremiah all the words of the book
whichJehoiakimking ofJudahhad burned
in the fire; and many similar words were
added to them.