Jeremiah 36

And it came to pass ^ain the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, ²Take thee ^ba roll of a book, and ^cwrite therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and ^dagainst Judah, and ^eagainst all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, ^ffrom the days of Josiah, even unto this day. ^3gIt may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that ^hthey may return every man from his evil way; ⁱthat I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. ⁴Then Jeremiah called ^kBaruch the son of Neriah: and ^lBaruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon ^la roll of a book. ⁵And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, ^mI am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord: 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 ⁿthe fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. ^7gIt may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, and ^hwill return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this people. 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. ⁹And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that ^othey proclaimed ⁿa fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. ¹⁰Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in ^pthe chamber of Gemariah the son of ^qShaphan ^rthe scribe, in ^sthe higher court ^tat the entry of the new gate of the Lord’s house, in the ears of all the people.

¹¹When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of ^qShaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord, ¹²then he went down into the king’s house, into ^rthe scribe’s chamber: and lo, all the princes sat there, even ^uElishama ^rthe scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and ^vElnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of ^qShaphan, and Zedekiah the son of ^wHananiah, and all the princes. ¹³Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. ¹⁴Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of ^xShelemiah, 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. ¹⁵And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. ¹⁶Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words, ^ythey were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. ¹⁷And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? ¹⁸Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and ^zI wrote them with ink in the book. ¹⁹Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

²⁰And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll ^ain the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. ²¹So the king sent Jehudi to fet the roll: and he took it out of ^aElishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes ^bwhich stood beside the king. ²²Now the king sat in ^cthe winterhouse ^din the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. ²³And 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. ^24yYet they were not afraid, ^enor ^frent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. ²⁵Nevertheless ^gElnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah ^hhad made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. ²⁶But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and ^xShelemiah the son of Abdeel, ⁱto take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

²⁷Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burnt the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, ²⁸Take 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 burnt. ²⁹And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, ^jThe king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? ³⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah; ^kHe shall have none ^lto sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be ^mcast out ⁿin the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 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. ³²Then 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 burnt in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

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