36:27-28 The Lord commanded Jeremiah to make another copy of the scroll that the king had burned (cf. 2 Kings 22:15-20).
36:29 He was also to send a message from the Lord to the king. Jehoiakim had burned the first scroll because it contained prophecies that Nebuchadnezzar would come and destroy the land and its inhabitants.
36:30 Because Jehoiakim had done this, he would have no descendant to follow him on Judah's throne; his dynasty would end. His son Jehoiachin did reign for three months after his father, but Jehoiachin assumed the throne without authorization and Nebuchadnezzar quickly deported him to Babylon. Furthermore Jehoiakim would suffer an ignominious death without burial (cf. 22: 18-19). He who threw (Heb. hishlik) the scroll into the fire would be thrown (Heb. hushlak) out into the elements. Josiah, in contrast, received an honorable burial (2 Kings 23:30; 2 Chron. 35:24). Jehoiakim evidently died either in a palace uprising or in a revolt by the people (cf. 22:18-19).482
36:31 The Lord would also punish him and his descendants and his servants with all the judgments that Jeremiah had predicted for the people of Jerusalem and Judah. He would send them because they had refused to listen to the Lord.
36:32 Jeremiah then dictated the prophecies to Baruch again, and he wrote them down on a second scroll. This time Jeremiah included other prophecies, those that he had received since he had dictated the first scroll. This document probably became the "first draft"of the present Book of Jeremiah.483The prophet uttered many more oracles between 604 and 586 B.C.
"As Hananiah later attempts to render the symbolic word of judgment futile by destroying the wooden yoke, so Jehoiakim attempts to destroy the word literally, in the fire. In Jer 28, a yoke of iron is Yahweh's last word. The end of this scene introduces a new scroll, with specific words' added for Jehoiakim in light of his rejection of the scroll. Jehoiakim cannot thwart the word of the LORD, and to attempt to do so brings inevitable consequences."484
