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          DASV: Jeremiah 36    

1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 "Get a scroll, and write on it all the words that I have
spoken to you against Israel, Judah, and all the nations,
from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until
this day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster
I plan on doing to them and turn everyone from their evil
way so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."

4 So Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah and Baruch wrote
on the scroll all the words Jeremiah dictated that the LORD had
spoken to him.
5 Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am banned from
entering into the house of the LORD.
6 Therefore go, and read from the scroll that you have written
from my dictation of the words of the LORD. Read it to the people
in the LORD's house on the fast day. Read them to all the people
of Judah who come from their towns.
7 It may be they will present their pleas before the LORD,
and will turn each one from his evil way; for great is the
anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against
this people."

8 So Baruch the son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah
the prophet told him to do, reading from the scroll the words
of the LORD in the LORD's house.
9 Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, all the people in Jerusalem and
all who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed
a fast before the LORD.
10 Then Baruch read in the hearing of all the people from the
scroll the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in
the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in
the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's
house.
11 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan,
heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,
12 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
room and all the officials were sitting there, including
Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan
the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah
the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
13 Then Micaiah declared to them everything that he had
heard when Baruch had read the scroll to the people.
14 Therefore all the officials sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to
Baruch, saying, "Bring in your hand the scroll that you
have read to the people, and come here." So Baruch the
son of Neriah brought the scroll in his hand and came to
them.
15 They told him, "Sit down now and read it to us." So
Baruch read it to them.
16 When they had heard all the words, they turned toward
each other in panic, and said to Baruch, "We must certainly
report all these words to the king."
17 So they asked Baruch, "Tell us now, how did you write
all these words? Was this a dictation taken from Jeremiah's
mouth?"
18 Then Baruch replied, "He dictated all these words to me
with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink on this scroll."
19 Then the officials told Baruch, "Go, hide, both you
and Jeremiah. Do not let anyone know where you are."

20 Then they went to the king in the court, but they
left the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe.
They reported all the words to the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the scroll. He took
it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read
it to the king and all the officials that stood beside
the king.
22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the
ninth month. There was a fire in the firepot before him.
23 When Jehudi would finish reading three or four columns,
then the king would cut it off with a knife, and throw
it into the fire that was in the firepot, until the
whole scroll was burned up in the fire that was in
the firepot.
24 The king and his servants who heard the words were
not frightened and did not tear their clothes.
25 Although Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah urged the
king that he not burn the scroll, yet he refused to
listen to them.
26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, Seraiah
the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet,
but the LORD hid them.

27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the
king had burned up the scroll, and the words that Baruch
wrote from Jeremiah's dictation, saying,
28 "Get another scroll, and write on it all the former
words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim
the king of Judah has burned up.
29 Now concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall
say: This is what the LORD says: You have burned up
this scroll, saying, 'Why have you written in it that
the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy
this land and will eliminate it, the people and animals?'
30 Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning
Jehoiakim king of Judah: 'None of his heirs will sit
on the throne of David. His corpse will be thrown
out enduring the heat of day and the frost at night. 31 I will punish him and his descendants and his
servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them,
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people of
Judah, all the disasters that I have pronounced against
them.'" But they still refused to listen.
32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it
to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote
on it all the words Jeremiah dictated from the scroll
that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned up in the
fire. They added to it many similar messages as well.

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