Jeremiah Chapter 36

• Jeremiah 36:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 36:2
  In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
• Jeremiah 36:3
  “Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the...
• Jeremiah 36:4
  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive...
• Jeremiah 36:5
  Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the LORD’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scro...
• Jeremiah 36:6
  Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into the LORD’s house.
• Jeremiah 36:7
  Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the LORD’s words, in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house on th...
• Jeremiah 36:8
  It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will each return from his evil way; for the LORD has pronounced great anger and wr...
• Jeremiah 36:9
  Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the LORD’s words in the LORD’s house.
• Jeremiah 36:10
  Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from ...
• Jeremiah 36:11
  Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in the LORD’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, a...
• Jeremiah 36:12
  When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the LORD’s words,
• Jeremiah 36:13
  he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Sh...
• Jeremiah 36:14
  Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
• Jeremiah 36:15
  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 scroll i...
• Jeremiah 36:16
  They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
• Jeremiah 36:17
  Now 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.”
• Jeremiah 36:18
  They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”
• Jeremiah 36:19
  Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
• Jeremiah 36:20
  Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”
• Jeremiah 36:21
  They went in to the king into the court, but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the heari...
• Jeremiah 36:22
  So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in th...
• Jeremiah 36:23
  Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
• Jeremiah 36:24
  When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll...
• Jeremiah 36:25
  The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.
• Jeremiah 36:26
  Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.
• Jeremiah 36:27
  The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah ...
• Jeremiah 36:28
  Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
• Jeremiah 36:29
  “Take 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.
• Jeremiah 36:30
  Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘The LORD says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written therein, saying, “The ki...
• Jeremiah 36:31
  Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day t...
• Jeremiah 36:32
  I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah,...
• Jeremiah 36:33
  Then Jeremiah took 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 ...