Chapter 36.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Take thee a roll of
a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against
Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations from the day I spake unto
thee, from the days of Josiah even unto this day.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purposed to do
unto them, that they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive
their iniquity and their sin.
Then Jeremiah called Barak, the son of Neriah.
And Barak wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had
spoken unto him upon a roll of a book.
And Jeremiah commanded Barak, saying, I am shut up.
I cannot go into the house of the Lord.
Therefore go thou and read in the roll which thou hast written from my mouth the
words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord's house upon the
fasting day.
And also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their
cities.
It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord and will
return every one from his evil way.
For great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this
people.
And Barak, the son of Neriah, did, according to all that Jeremiah the prophet
commanded him, reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all
the people in Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah
unto Jerusalem.
Then read Barak in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord in the
chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the higher court,
at the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house, in the ears of all the people.
When Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the
book all the words of the Lord, then he went down into the king's house,
into the scribe's chamber.
And, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishema the scribe, and Eliah the
son of Shimea, and Elnathan the son of Akbar, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan,
and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Barak read
the book in the ears of the people.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi, the son of Nephaniah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Barak, saying, Take in thine hand the roll
wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come.
So Barak, the son of Nariah, took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
So Barak read it in their ears.
Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one
and other, and said unto Barak, We will surely tell the king of all these
words.
And they asked Barak, saying, Tell us now, how didst thou write all these words at
his mouth?
Then Barak answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth,
and I wrote them with ink in the book.
Then said the princes unto Barak, Go hide thee thou and Jeremiah,
and let no man know where ye be.
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the
chamber of Elishema the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the
king.
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he took it out of Elishema the
scribe's chamber, and Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of
all the princes which stood beside the king.
Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on
the hearth burning before him.
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with
the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll
was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king nor any of his
servants that heard all these words.
Nevertheless, Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah had made intercession to the
king that he would not burn the roll, but he would not hear them.
But the king commanded Jeremiel, the son of Hamalek, and Saraiah,
the son of Azrael, and Shalamiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet.
But the lord hid them.
Then the word of the lord came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned
the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the
first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thou saith the lord, thou hast
burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of
Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from
thence man and beast.
Therefore thou saith the lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit
upon 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.
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity.
And I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men
of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them.
But they hearkened not.
Then took Jeremiah another roll, 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 they were added besides unto them many like words.