Jer 36
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
that this word came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
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Take you a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you
against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke
to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
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It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to
them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity
and their sin.
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Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the words of YHWH, which he had spoken to him, upon a roll of a book.
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And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of
YHWH:
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therefore go you, and read in the roll, which you have written from my mouth, the
words of YHWH in the ears of the people in YHWH`s house upon the fast-day; and also
you shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
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It may be they will present their supplication before YHWH, and will return every
one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the anger that YHWH has pronounced
against this people.
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And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded
him, reading in the book the words of YHWH in YHWH`s house.
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Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came
from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before YHWH.
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Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of YHWH, in the chamber
of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the
new gate of YHWH`s house, in the ears of all the people.
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And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book
all the words of YHWH,
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he went down into the king`s house, into the scribe`s chamber: and, behold, all the
princes were sitting there, [to wit], Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of
Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah
the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
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Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the
book in the ears of the people.
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Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah,
the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the roll wherein you have read
in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in
his hand, and came to them.
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And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in
their ears.
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Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward
another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
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And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his
mouth?
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Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and
I wrote them with ink in the book.
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Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know
where you are.
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And they went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the
chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
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So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama
the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the
princes that stood beside the king.
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Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and [there was a
fire in] the brazier burning before him.
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And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut
it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all
the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
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And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his
servants that heard all these words.
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Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that
he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.
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And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king`s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and
Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but
YHWH hid them.
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Then the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and
the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
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Take you again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the
first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
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And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says YHWH: You have burned
this roll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall
certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and
beast?
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Therefore thus says YHWH concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to
sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the
heat, and in the night to the frost.
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And I will punish him and his seed 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 evil that I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not.
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Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah,
who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim
king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like
words.