Jeremiah 36:26

36:26 He also ordered Jerahmeel, who was one of the royal princes, ¹  Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. However, the Lord hid them.

Jeremiah 36:2

36:2 “Get a scroll. ²  Write on it everything I have told you to say ³  about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 16:10

The Lord Promises Exile (But Also Restoration)

16:10 “When you tell these people about all this, ⁵  they will undoubtedly ask you, ‘Why has the Lord threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the Lord our God?’

Psalms 119:109

119:109 My life is in continual danger, ⁶ 

but I do not forget your law.

Matthew 14:5

14:5 Although ⁷  Herod ⁸  wanted to kill John, ⁹  he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Mark 6:19

6:19 So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But ¹⁰  she could not

[36:26]  ¹ tn Heb “the son of the king.” Many of the commentaries express doubt that this actually refers to Jehoiakim’s own son since Jehoiakim was only about thirty at this time and one of his sons would not have been old enough to have been in such a position of authority. The same doubt is expressed about the use of this term in 38:6 and in 1 Kgs 22:26. The term need not refer to the ruling king’s own son but one of the royal princes.

[36:2]  ² sn Heb “a roll [or scroll] of a document.” Scrolls consisted of pieces of leather or parchment sewn together and rolled up on wooden rollers. The writing was written from right to left and from top to bottom in columns and the scroll unrolled from the left roller and rolled onto the right one as the scroll was read. The scroll varied in length depending on the contents. This scroll was probably not all that long since it was read three times in a single day (vv. 10-11, 15-16, 21-23).

[36:2]  ³ sn The intent is hardly that of giving a verbatim report of everything that the Lord had told him to say or of everything that he had actually said. What the scroll undoubtedly contained was a synopsis of Jeremiah’s messages as constructed from his memory.

[36:2]  ⁴ sn 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 years of Jehoiakim’s reign (the period between Josiah’s thirteenth year [cf. 1:2] and the fourth year of Jehoiakim [v. 1]). The exact content of this scroll is unknown since many of the messages in the present book are undated. It is also not known what relation this scroll had to the present form of the book of Jeremiah, since this scroll was destroyed and another one written that contained more than this one did (cf. v. 32). Since Jeremiah continued his ministry down to the fall of Jerusalem in 587/6 b.c. (1:2) and beyond (cf. Jer 40-44) much more was added to those two scrolls even later.

[16:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “all these words/things.”

[119:109]  ⁶ tn Heb “my life [is] in my hands continually.”

[14:5]  ⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[14:5]  ⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:5]  ⁹ tn Grk “him” (also in the following phrase, Grk “accepted him”); in both cases the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:19]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.