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Text -- Jeremiah 36:1-14 (NET)
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Jehoiakim Burns the Scroll Containing the Lord’s Messages
36:1 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah .
36:2 “Get a scroll . Write on it everything I have told you to say about Israel , Judah , and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now .
36:3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the disaster I intend to bring on them , they will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. If they do, I will forgive their sins and the wicked things they have done.”
36:4 So Jeremiah summoned Baruch son of Neriah . Then Jeremiah dictated to Baruch everything the Lord had told him to say and Baruch wrote it all down in a scroll .
36:5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch , “I am no longer allowed to go into the Lord’s temple .
36:6 So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast in the Lord’s temple . Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said , which you wrote in the scroll .
36:7 Perhaps then they will ask the Lord for mercy and will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. For the Lord has threatened to bring great anger and wrath against these people .”
36:8 So Baruch son of Neriah did exactly what the prophet Jeremiah had told him to do. He read what the Lord had said from the scroll in the temple of the Lord .
36:9 All the people living in Jerusalem and all the people who came into Jerusalem from the towns of Judah came to observe a fast before the Lord . The fast took place in the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah .
36:10 At that time Baruch went into the temple of the Lord . He stood in the entrance of the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan who had been the royal secretary . That room was in the upper court near the entrance of the New Gate . There, where all the people could hear him, he read from the scroll what Jeremiah had said.
36:11 Micaiah , who was the son of Gemariah and the grandson of Shaphan , heard Baruch read from the scroll everything the Lord had said .
36:12 He went down to the chamber of the royal secretary in the king’s palace and found all the court officials in session there. Elishama the royal secretary , Delaiah son of Shemaiah , Elnathan son of Achbor , Gemariah son of Shaphan , Zedekiah son of Hananiah , and all the other officials were seated there .
36:13 Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people .
36:14 All the officials sent Jehudi , who was the son of Nethaniah and the grandson of Cushi , to Baruch . They ordered him to tell Baruch, “Come here and bring with you the scroll you read in the hearing of the people .” So Baruch son of Neriah went to them, carrying the scroll in his hand .
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NET Notes -> Jer 36:1; Jer 36:1; Jer 36:2; Jer 36:2; Jer 36:2; Jer 36:3; Jer 36:3; Jer 36:3; Jer 36:4; Jer 36:5; Jer 36:6; Jer 36:6; Jer 36:7; Jer 36:7; Jer 36:8; Jer 36:9; Jer 36:9; Jer 36:9; Jer 36:10; Jer 36:10; Jer 36:10; Jer 36:10; Jer 36:11; Jer 36:12; Jer 36:12; Jer 36:13; Jer 36:14; Jer 36:14; Jer 36:14
NET Notes: Jer 36:1 Heb “This word came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah the king of Judah, saying.”
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NET Notes: Jer 36:2 This refers to the messages that Jeremiah delivered during the last eighteen years of Josiah, the three month reign of Jehoahaz and the first four yea...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:3 The offer of withdrawal of punishment for sin is consistent with the principles of Jer 18:7-8 and the temple sermon delivered early in the reign of th...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:4 Heb “Then Baruch wrote down on a scroll from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he [the Lord] had spoken to him [Jeremiah]....
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NET Notes: Jer 36:5 Heb “I am restrained; I cannot go into.” The word “restrained” is used elsewhere in Jeremiah of his being confined to the cour...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:6 Heb “So you go and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the house of the...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:7 Heb “For great is the anger and the wrath which the Lord has spoken against this people.” The translation uses the more active form which ...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:8 Heb “And Baruch son of Neriah did according to all that the prophet Jeremiah commanded him with regard to reading from the scroll the words of t...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:9 Judging from v. 22 this was one of the winter months meaning that the reckoning is based on the calendar which starts with April rather than the one w...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:10 The syntax of the original is complicated due to all the qualifying terms: Heb “And Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hou...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:11 Heb “Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shaphan heard all the words of the Lord from upon the scroll.” The words “heard Baruch read̶...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:12 This man has already been mentioned in Jer 26:22 as the official who was sent to Egypt to extradite the prophet Uriah that Jehoiakim had executed. Tho...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:13 Heb “Micaiah reported to them all the words which he heard when Baruch read from the scroll in the ears of the people.”
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