The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
36: 1It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word
came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 36:2Take a scroll 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. 36:3It 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. 36:4Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of
Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which he had
spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. 36:5Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't
go into the house of Yahweh: 36:6therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written
from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast-day;
and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. 36:7It may be they
will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return everyone from his evil way; for
great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people. 36:8Baruch the son
of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the
words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house. 36:9Now it happened 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 who
came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. 36:10Then read
Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah
the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's house,
in the ears of all the people. 36:11When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard
out of the book all the words of Yahweh, 36:12he 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. 36:13Then Micaiah declared to them all the words
that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. 36:14Therefore 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 scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.
So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them. 36:15They said to him,
Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. 36:16Now it happened, 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. 36:17They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you
write all these words at his mouth? 36:18Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these
words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. 36:19Then said the princes to
Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are. 36:20They went in to
the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and
they told all the words in the ears of the king. 36:21So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he
took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the
ears of all the princes who stood beside the king. 36:22Now the king was sitting in the winter-house
in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him. 36:23It happened, 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 scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. 36:24They
were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all
these words. 36:25Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king
that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them. 36:26The 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 Yahweh hid them. 36:27Then the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the
mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 36:28Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that
were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. 36:29Concerning Jehoiakim
king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, 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 animal? 36:30Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning
Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on 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. 36:31I will punish him and his seed
and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn't listen.
36:32Then took Jeremiah another scroll, 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.
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