Jeremiah 36:21-32 ▼

21 Then the king sent Jehudi (Jew) to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama (my God has heard) the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.

22 Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.

23 And as soon as Jehudi (Jew) had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

24 Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.

25 Even though Elnathan (God has given), Delaiah (YHWH has drawn), and Gemariah (YHWH has accomplished) urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

26 Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel (may God have pity), a son of the king, as well as Seraiah (YHWH is ruler) son of Azriel (my help is God) and Shelemiah (repaid by YHWH) son of Abdeel (servant of God), to seize Baruch (blessed) the scribe and Jeremiah (whom YHWH has appointed) the prophet. But the LORD {YHWH} had hidden them.

27 After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch (blessed) had written at Jeremiah’s (whom YHWH has appointed) dictation, the word of the LORD {YHWH} came to Jeremiah:

28 “Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim (YHWH raises up) king of Judah (praised) has burned.

29 You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim (YHWH raises up) king of Judah (praised) that this is what the LORD {YHWH} says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon (confusion by mixing) would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’

30 Therefore this is what the LORD {YHWH} says about Jehoiakim (YHWH raises up) king of Judah (praised): He will have no one to sit on David’s (beloved) throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.

31 I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem (city of peace), and on the men of Judah (praised), all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

32 Then Jeremiah (whom YHWH has appointed) took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch (blessed) son of Neriah (lamp of YHWH), and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim (YHWH raises up) king of Judah (praised) had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.