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Jeremiah 36:1-32 — Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah's Scroll

Jer.36.1-32

¹Now it came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying: ²"Take a scroll of a book, and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you concerning Israel, and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. ³Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I am planning to bring upon them, so that they may each turn back from his evil way, and I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." ⁴Then Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD that He had spoken to him. ⁵And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD. ⁶So you go, and read from the scroll that you have written at my dictation the words of the LORD in the hearing of the people in the house of the LORD on a day of fasting. You shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities. ⁷Perhaps their plea for mercy will fall before the LORD, and each one will turn back from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people." ⁸And Baruch son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the LORD in the house of the LORD. ⁹Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD. ¹⁰Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard, at the entrance of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, in the hearing of all the people. ¹¹When Micaiah son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the book, ¹²he went down to the king's house, into the scribe's chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the officials. ¹³And Micaiah reported to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read from the book in the hearing of the people. ¹⁴Then all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them. ¹⁵They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing. ¹⁶Now when they heard all the words, they turned in fear to one another, and they said to Baruch, “We must certainly report all these words to the king.” ¹⁷And they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation ?” ¹⁸Baruch said to them, “He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them on the scroll with ink.” ¹⁹Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.” ²⁰They went to the king in the courtyard, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And they reported all the words in the hearing of the king. ²¹So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and in the hearing of all the officials who were standing beside the king. ²²Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire burning in the firepot before him. ²³And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the fire that was in the firepot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the firepot. ²⁴Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments. ²⁵Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶Then the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son , Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them. ²⁷Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll and the words that Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying: ²⁸"Take again another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned. ²⁹And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'Thus says the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written on it, saying, 'The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast'?” ³⁰Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night. ³¹I will punish him and his offspring 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 disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they did not listen.'" ³²Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

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4/11/2026

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