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Jeremiah 36
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Baruch Reads the Scroll in the Temple

36In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me,H7243H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H1697H3414H3068H559
2"Get a scroll and write on it everything that I have told you about Israel and Judah and all the nations. Write everything that I have told you from the time I first spoke to you, when Josiah was king, up to the present.H3947H4039H5612H3789H1697H1696H3478H3063H1471H3117H1696H3117H2977H3117
3Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the destruction that I intend to bring on them, they will turn from their evil ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins."H1004H3063H8085H7451H2803H6213H7725H376H7451H1870H5545H5771H2403
4So I called Baruch son of Neriah and dictated to him everything that the LORD had said to me. And Baruch wrote it all down on a scroll.H3414H7121H1263H1121H5374H1263H3789H6310H3414H1697H3068H1696H4039H5612
5Then I gave Baruch the following instructions: "I am no longer allowed to go into the Temple.H3414H6680H1263H559H6113H3201H935H1004H3068
6But I want you to go there the next time the people are fasting. You are to read the scroll aloud, so that they will hear everything that the LORD has said to me and that I have dictated to you. Do this where everyone can hear you, including the people of Judah who have come in from their towns.H935H7121H4039H3789H6310H1697H3068H241H5971H3068H1004H6685H3117H7121H241H3063H935H5892
7Perhaps they will pray to the LORD and turn from their evil ways, because the LORD has threatened this people with his terrible anger and fury."H5307H8467H6440H3068H7725H376H7451H1870H1419H639H2534H3068H1696H5971
8So Baruch read the LORD's words in the Temple exactly as I had told him to do.H1263H1121H5374H6213H3414H5030H6680H7121H5612H1697H3068H3068H1004
9In the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, the people fasted to gain the LORD's favor. The fast was kept by all who lived in Jerusalem and by all who came there from the towns of Judah.H2549H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H8671H2320H7121H6685H6440H3068H5971H3389H5971H935H5892H3063H3389
10Then, while all the people were listening, Baruch read from the scroll everything that I had said. He did this in the Temple, from the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan, the court secretary. His room was in the upper court near the entrance of the New Gate of the Temple.H7121H1263H5612H1697H3414H1004H3068H3957H1587H1121H8227H5608H5945H2691H6607H2319H8179H3068H1004H241H5971

The Scroll Is Read to the Officials

11Micaiah, the son of Gemariah and grandson of Shaphan, heard Baruch read from the scroll what the LORD had said.H4321H1121H1587H1121H8227H8085H5612H1697H3068
12Then he went to the royal palace, to the room of the court secretary, where all the officials were in session. Elishama, the court secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials were there.H3381H4428H1004H5608H3957H8269H3427H476H5608H1806H1121H8098H494H1121H5907H1587H1121H8227H6667H1121H2608H8269
13Micaiah told them everything that he had heard Baruch read to the people.H4321H5046H1697H8085H1263H7121H5612H241H5971
14Then the officials sent Jehudi (the son of Nethaniah, grandson of Shelemiah, and great-grandson of Cushi) to tell Baruch to bring the scroll that he had read to the people. Baruch brought them the scroll.H8269H7971H3065H1121H5418H1121H8018H1121H3570H1263H559H3947H3027H4039H7121H241H5971H3212H1263H1121H5374H3947H4039H3027H935
15"Sit down," they said, "and read the scroll to us." So Baruch did.H559H3427H7121H241H1263H7121H241
16After he had read it, they turned to one another in alarm and said to Baruch, "We must report this to the king."H8085H1697H6342H413H376H7453H559H1263H5046H5046H4428H1697
17Then they asked him, "Tell us, now, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it to you?"H7592H1263H559H5046H3789H1697H6310
18Baruch answered, "Jeremiah dictated every word of it to me, and I wrote it down in ink on this scroll."H1263H559H7121H1697H6310H3789H1773H5612
19Then they told him, "You and Jeremiah must go and hide. Don't let anyone know where you are."H559H8269H1263H3212H5641H3414H376H3045H375

The King Burns the Scroll

20The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama, the court secretary, and went to the king's court, where they reported everything to the king.H935H4428H2691H6485H4039H3957H476H5608H5046H1697H241H4428
21Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He took it from the room of Elishama and read it to the king and all the officials who were standing around him.H4428H7971H3065H3947H4039H3947H476H5608H3957H3065H7121H241H4428H241H8269H5975H5921H4428
22It was winter and the king was sitting in his winter palace in front of the fire.H4428H3427H1004H2779H8671H2320H254H1197H6440
23As soon as Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king cut them off with a small knife and threw them into the fire. He kept doing this until the entire scroll was burned up.H3065H7121H7969H702H1817H7167H8593H5608H7993H784H254H4039H8552H784H254
24But neither the king nor any of his officials who heard all this was afraid or showed any sign of sorrow.H6342H7167H899H4428H5650H8085H1697
25Although Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, he paid no attention to them.H494H1806H1587H6293H4428H8313H4039H8085
26Then he ordered Prince Jerahmeel, together with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to arrest me and my secretary Baruch. But the LORD had hidden us.H4428H6680H3396H1121H4429H8304H1121H5837H8018H1121H5655H3947H1263H5608H3414H5030H3068H5641

Jeremiah Writes Another Scroll

27After King Jehoiakim had burned the scroll that I had dictated to Baruch, the LORD told meH1697H3068H3414H310H4428H8313H4039H1697H1263H3789H6310H3414H559
28to take another scroll and write on it everything that had been on the first one.H3947H7725H312H4039H3789H7223H1697H7223H4039H3079H4428H3063H8313
29The LORD told me to say to the king, "You have burned the scroll, and you have asked Jeremiah why he wrote that the king of Babylonia would come and destroy this land and kill its people and its animals.H559H3079H4428H3063H559H3068H8313H4039H559H3789H559H4428H894H935H935H7843H776H7673H120H929
30So now, I, the LORD, say to you, King Jehoiakim, that no descendant of yours will ever rule over David's kingdom. Your corpse will be thrown out where it will be exposed to the sun during the day and to the frost at night.H559H3068H3079H4428H3063H3427H3678H1732H5038H7993H3117H2721H3915H7140
31I will punish you, your descendants, and your officials because of the sins all of you commit. Neither you nor the people of Jerusalem and of Judah have paid any attention to my warnings, and so I will bring on all of you the disaster that I have threatened."H6485H2233H5650H5771H935H3427H3389H376H3063H7451H1696H8085
32Then I took another scroll and gave it to my secretary Baruch, and he wrote down everything that I dictated. He wrote everything that had been on the first scroll and similar messages that I dictated to him.H3947H3414H312H4039H5414H1263H5608H1121H5374H3789H6310H3414H1697H5612H3079H4428H3063H8313H784H3254H7227H1992H1697


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