Jeremiah 36 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Jeremiah's Scroll Read in the Temple

Jer 36:1And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Jer 36:2

Jer 36:2Take thee a roll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to thee, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Jer 36:3

Jer 36:3It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

Jer 36:4

Jer 36:4Then 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 to him, upon a roll of a book.

Jer 36:5

Jer 36:5And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am confined, I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

Jer 36:6

Jer 36:6Therefore 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 day of fasting: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

Jer 36:7

Jer 36:7It 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.

Jer 36:8

Jer 36:8And 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.

Jer 36:9

Jer 36:9And 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 to Jerusalem.

Jer 36:10

Jer 36:10Then Baruch read 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.

Jer 36:11

Jer 36:11When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

Jer 36:12

Jer 36:12Then 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.

Jer 36:13

Jer 36:13Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

Jer 36:14

Jer 36:14Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll in which 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 to them.

Jer 36:15

Jer 36:15And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

Jer 36:16

Jer 36:16Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

Jer 36:17

Jer 36:17And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

Jer 36:18

Jer 36:18Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Jer 36:19

Jer 36:19Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide thyself, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are.

The Scroll Is Burned

Jer 36:20

Jer 36:20And 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.

Jer 36:21

Jer 36:21So the king sent Jehudi to bring the roll: and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama, the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.

Jer 36:22

Jer 36:22Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

Jer 36:23

Jer 36:23And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's pen-knife, 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.

Jer 36:24

Jer 36:24Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

Jer 36:25

Jer 36:25Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.

Jer 36:26

Jer 36:26But 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.

The Scroll Is Replaced

Jer 36:27

Jer 36:27Then 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,

Jer 36:28

Jer 36:28Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burned.

Jer 36:29

Jer 36:29And 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?

Jer 36:30

Jer 36:30Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning 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.

Jer 36:31

Jer 36:31And 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.

Jer 36:32

Jer 36:32Then Jeremiah took 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 besides added to them many like words.

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