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Text -- Jeremiah 36:1-26 (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 .
36:15 They said to him, “Please sit down and read it to us.” So Baruch sat down and read it to them .
36:16 When they had heard it all , they expressed their alarm to one another . Then they said to Baruch , “We must certainly give the king a report about everything you have read!”
36:17 Then they asked Baruch , “How did you come to write all these words ? Do they actually come from Jeremiah’s mouth ?”
36:18 Baruch answered , “Yes, they came from his own mouth . He dictated all these words to me and I wrote them down in ink on this scroll .”
36:19 Then the officials said to Baruch , “You and Jeremiah must go and hide . You must not let anyone know where you are.”
36:20 The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama , the royal secretary , for safekeeping . Then they went to the court and reported everything to the king .
36:21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll . He went and got it from the room of Elishama , the royal secretary . Then he himself read it to the king and all the officials who were standing around him .
36:22 Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters . A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him.
36:23 As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them on the fire in the firepot . He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire .
36:24 Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.
36:25 The king did not even listen to Elnathan , Delaiah , and Gemariah , who had urged him not to burn the scroll .
36:26 He also ordered Jerahmeel , who was one of the royal princes, Seraiah son of Azriel , and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah . However, the Lord hid them.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Baruch |
Jehoiakim |
Jeremiah |
BARUCH, BOOK OF |
JEREMIAH (2) |
PEN |
ROLL (SCROLL) |
PARCHMENT |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
Elijah |
Gemariah |
Jehudi |
Michaiah |
Elishama |
Shelemiah |
Shaphan |
Delaiah |
Amanuensis |
Fast |
Hearth |
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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; Jer 36:15; Jer 36:16; Jer 36:16; Jer 36:16; Jer 36:17; Jer 36:18; Jer 36:19; Jer 36:20; Jer 36:20; Jer 36:20; Jer 36:21; Jer 36:22; Jer 36:22; Jer 36:22; Jer 36:23; Jer 36:23; Jer 36:23; Jer 36:23; Jer 36:24; Jer 36:24; Jer 36:25; Jer 36:26
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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NET Notes: Jer 36:14 Heb “So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them.” The clause order has been rearranged in the translation for st...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:15 Or “‘to us personally’…to them personally”; Heb “‘in our ears’…in their ears.” Elsewhere t...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:16 Heb “We must certainly report to the king all these things.” Here the word דְּבָרִים...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:17 Or “Did Jeremiah dictate them to you?” The words “Do they actually come from Jeremiah’s mouth?” assume that the last phr...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:18 The verbal forms emphasize that each word came from his mouth. The first verb is an imperfect which emphasizes repeated action in past time and the se...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:19 The verbs here are both direct imperatives but it sounds awkward to say “You and Jeremiah, go and hide” in contemporary English. The same ...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:20 Both here and in the next verse the Hebrew has “in the ears of” before “the king” (and also before “all the officials...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:21 Heb “and Jehudi read it.” However, Jehudi has been the subject of the preceding; so it would be awkward in English to use the personal sub...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:22 Heb “the fire in the firepot was burning before him.” The translation assumes that the word “fire” (אֵש...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:23 Heb “until the whole scroll was consumed upon the fire which was in the fire pot.”
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NET Notes: Jer 36:24 There are some interesting wordplays and contrasts involved here. The action of the king and his attendants should be contrasted with that of the offi...
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NET Notes: Jer 36:25 Heb “And also Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged [or had urged] the king not to burn the scroll, but he did not listen to them.” The tr...
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