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36In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah received this Message from GOD:H7243H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H1697H3414H3068H559 2"Get a scroll and write down everything I've told you regarding Israel and Judah and all the other nations from the time I first started speaking to you in Josiah's reign right up to the present day.H3947H4039H5612H3789H1697H1696H3478H3063H1471H3117H1696H3117H2977H3117 3"Maybe the community of Judah will finally get it, finally understand the catastrophe that I'm planning for them, turn back from their bad lives, and let me forgive their perversity and sin."H1004H3063H8085H7451H2803H6213H7725H376H7451H1870H5545H5771H2403 4So Jeremiah called in Baruch son of Neriah. Jeremiah dictated and Baruch wrote down on a scroll everything that GOD had said to him.H3414H7121H1263H1121H5374H1263H3789H6310H3414H1697H3068H1696H4039H5612 5Then Jeremiah told Baruch, "I'm blacklisted. I can't go into GOD's Temple,H3414H6680H1263H559H6113H3201H935H1004H3068 6so you'll have to go in my place. Go into the Temple and read everything you've written at my dictation. Wait for a day of fasting when everyone is there to hear you. And make sure that all the people who come from the Judean villages hear you.H935H7121H4039H3789H6310H1697H3068H241H5971H3068H1004H6685H3117H7121H241H3063H935H5892 7"Maybe, just maybe, they'll start praying and GOD will hear their prayers. Maybe they'll turn back from their bad lives. This is no light matter. GOD has certainly let them know how angry he is!"H5307H8467H6440H3068H7725H376H7451H1870H1419H639H2534H3068H1696H5971 8Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do. In the Temple of GOD he read the Message of GOD from the scroll.H1263H1121H5374H6213H3414H5030H6680H7121H5612H1697H3068H3068H1004 9It came about in December of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah that all the people of Jerusalem, along with all the people from the Judean villages, were there in Jerusalem to observe a fast to GOD.H2549H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H8671H2320H7121H6685H6440H3068H5971H3389H5971H935H5892H3063H3389 10Baruch took the scroll to the Temple and read out publicly the words of Jeremiah. He read from the meeting room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary of state, which was in the upper court right next to the New Gate of GOD's Temple. Everyone could hear him.H7121H1263H5612H1697H3414H1004H3068H3957H1587H1121H8227H5608H5945H2691H6607H2319H8179H3068H1004H241H5971 11The moment Micaiah the son of Gemariah heard what was being read from the scroll—GOD's Message!—H4321H1121H1587H1121H8227H8085H5612H1697H3068 12he went straight to the palace and to the chambers of the secretary of state where all the government officials were holding a meeting: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other government officials.H3381H4428H1004H5608H3957H8269H3427H476H5608H1806H1121H8098H494H1121H5907H1587H1121H8227H6667H1121H2608H8269 13Micaiah reported everything he had heard Baruch read from the scroll as the officials listened.H4321H5046H1697H8085H1263H7121H5612H241H5971 14Immediately they dispatched Jehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Semaiah, son of Cushi, to Baruch, ordering him, "Take the scroll that you have read to the people and bring it here." So Baruch went and retrieved the scroll.H8269H7971H3065H1121H5418H1121H8018H1121H3570H1263H559H3947H3027H4039H7121H241H5971H3212H1263H1121H5374H3947H4039H3027H935 15The officials told him, "Sit down. Read it to us, please." Baruch read it.H559H3427H7121H241H1263H7121H241 16When they had heard it all, they were upset. They talked it over. "We've got to tell the king all this."H8085H1697H6342H413H376H7453H559H1263H5046H5046H4428H1697 17They asked Baruch, "Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Was it at Jeremiah's dictation?"H7592H1263H559H5046H3789H1697H6310 18Baruch said, "That's right. Every word right from his own mouth. And I wrote it down, word for word, with pen and ink."H1263H559H7121H1697H6310H3789H1773H5612 19The government officials told Baruch, "You need to get out of here. Go into hiding, you and Jeremiah. Don't let anyone know where you are!"H559H8269H1263H3212H5641H3414H376H3045H375 20The officials went to the court of the palace to report to the king, having put the scroll for safekeeping in the office of Elishama the secretary of state.H935H4428H2691H6485H4039H3957H476H5608H5046H1697H241H4428 21The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He brought it from the office of Elishama the secretary. Jehudi then read it to the king and the officials who were in the king's service.H4428H7971H3065H3947H4039H3947H476H5608H3957H3065H7121H241H4428H241H8269H5975H5921H4428 22It was December. The king was sitting in his winter quarters in front of a charcoal fire.H4428H3427H1004H2779H8671H2320H254H1197H6440 23After Jehudi would read three or four columns, the king would cut them off the scroll with his pocketknife and throw them in the fire. He continued in this way until the entire scroll had been burned up in the fire.H3065H7121H7969H702H1817H7167H8593H5608H7993H784H254H4039H8552H784H254 24Neither the king nor any of his officials showed the slightest twinge of conscience as they listened to the messages read.H6342H7167H899H4428H5650H8085H1697 25Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah tried to convince the king not to burn the scroll, but he brushed them off.H494H1806H1587H6293H4428H8313H4039H8085 26He just plowed ahead and ordered Prince Jerahameel, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Jeremiah the prophet and his secretary Baruch. But GOD had hidden them away.H4428H6680H3396H1121H4429H8304H1121H5837H8018H1121H5655H3947H1263H5608H3414H5030H3068H5641 27After the king had burned the scroll that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, Jeremiah received this Message from GOD:H1697H3068H3414H310H4428H8313H4039H1697H1263H3789H6310H3414H559 28"Get another blank scroll and do it all over again. Write out everything that was in that first scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.H3947H7725H312H4039H3789H7223H1697H7223H4039H3079H4428H3063H8313 29"And send this personal message to Jehoiakim king of Judah: 'GOD says, You had the gall to burn this scroll and then the nerve to say, "What kind of nonsense is this written here—that the king of Babylon will come and destroy this land and kill everything in it?"H559H3079H4428H3063H559H3068H8313H4039H559H3789H559H4428H894H935H935H7843H776H7673H120H929 30"'Well, do you want to know what GOD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah? This: No descendant of his will ever rule from David's throne. His corpse will be thrown in the street and left unburied, exposed to the hot sun and the freezing night.H559H3068H3079H4428H3063H3427H3678H1732H5038H7993H3117H2721H3915H7140 31I will punish him and his children and the officials in his government for their blatant sin. I'll let loose on them and everyone in Jerusalem the doomsday disaster of which I warned them but they spit at.'"H6485H2233H5650H5771H935H3427H3389H376H3063H7451H1696H8085 32So Jeremiah went and got another scroll and gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, his secretary. At Jeremiah's dictation he again wrote down everything that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. There were also generous additions, but of the same kind of thing.H3947H3414H312H4039H5414H1263H5608H1121H5374H3789H6310H3414H1697H5612H3079H4428H3063H8313H784H3254H7227H1992H1697


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