Jer 36 | NASB1995 | STEP | In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah , king of Judah , this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying ,

Jeremiah 36

Jeremiah’s Scroll Read in the Temple

1 In the ^afourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 “Take a ^{▼▼ Lit scroll of a book
,} ^cscroll and write on it all the ^dwords which I have spoken to you concerning ^eIsrael and concerning Judah, and concerning all the ^fnations, from the ^gday I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. 3 ^h“Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the calamity which I plan to bring on them, in order that every man will ⁱturn from his evil way; then I will ^jforgive their iniquity and their sin.”

4 Then Jeremiah called ^kBaruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a ^{▼▼ Lit scroll of a book
,} ^mscroll ^{▼▼ Lit from the mouth of}at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him. 5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am ^{▼▼ Lit shut up
,} ^prestricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord. 6 “So you go and ^qread from the scroll which you have ^rwritten ^{▼▼ Lit from my mouth}at my dictation the words of the Lord ^{▼▼ Lit in the ears of, and so throughout this context}to the people in the Lord’s house on a ^ufast day. And also you shall read them ^{▼▼ Lit in the ears of, and so throughout this context}to all the people of Judah who come from their cities. 7 ^w“Perhaps their supplication will ^{▼▼ Lit fall}come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for ^ygreat is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.” 8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, ^zreading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.

9 Now in the ^aafifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ^abninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who ^accame from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a ^adfast before the Lord. 10 Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord in the ^aechamber of ^afGemariah the son of Shaphan the ^agscribe, in the upper court, at the ^ahentry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house, to all the people.

11 Now when ^aiMicaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the Lord from the book, 12 he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there— ^ajElishama the scribe, and ^akDelaiah the son of Shemaiah, and ^alElnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. 13 Micaiah ^amdeclared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people. 14 Then all the officials sent ^anJehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah ^aotook the scroll in his hand and went to them. 15 They said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it to us.” So Baruch ^apread it to them. 16 When they had heard all the words, they turned in ^aqfear one to another and said to Baruch, “We will surely ^arreport all these words to the king.” 17 And they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, ^ashow did you write all these words? Was it ^{▼▼ Lit from his mouth, and so throughout this context}at his dictation?” 18 Then Baruch said to them, “He ^audictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.” 19 Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, ^avhide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”

The Scroll Is Burned

20 So they went to the ^awking in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of ^axElishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to the king. 21 Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi ^ayread it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king. 22 Now the king was sitting in the ^azwinter house in the ^baninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. 23 When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and ^bbthrew it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. 24 Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were ^bcnot afraid, nor did they ^bdrend their garments. 25 Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah ^bepleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. 26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to ^bfseize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the ^bgLord hid them.

The Scroll Is Replaced

27 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had ^bhburned the scroll and the words which ^biBaruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying, 28 ^bj“Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were ^bkon the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned. 29 “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You have ^blburned this scroll, saying, ‘ ^bmWhy have you written on it ^{▼▼ Lit saying}that the ^boking of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?’” 30 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, “He shall have ^bpno one to sit on the throne of David, and his ^bqdead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. 31 “I will also ^brpunish him and his ^{▼▼ Lit seed}descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will ^btbring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them— but they did not listen.”’”

32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he ^buwrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many ^{▼▼ Lit like those}similar words were added to them.