Jeremiah 36:15-25

15 They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch 1read it to them.
16 When they had heard all the words, they turned in 2fear one to another and said to Baruch, "We will surely 3report all these words to the king."
17 And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us, please, 4how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?"
18 Then Baruch said to them, "He 5dictated * * all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book."
19 Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, 6hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are."

The Scroll Is Burned

20 So they went to the 7king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of 8Elishama 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 9read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside * the king.
22 Now the king was sitting in the 10winter house in the 11ninth 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 12threw 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 13not afraid, nor did they 14rend their garments.
25 Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah 15pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

Cross References 15

  • 1. Jeremiah 36:21
  • 2. Jeremiah 36:24; Acts 24:25
  • 3. Jeremiah 13:18; Amos 7:10, 11
  • 4. John 9:10, 15, 26
  • 5. Jeremiah 36:4
  • 6. 1 Kings 17:3; 1 Kings 18:4, 10; Jeremiah 26:20-24; Jeremiah 36:26
  • 7. Jeremiah 36:12
  • 8. Jeremiah 36:12
  • 9. 2 Kings 22:10; 2 Chronicles 34:18; Ezekiel 2:4, 5
  • 10. Judges 3:20; Amos 3:15
  • 11. Jeremiah 36:9
  • 12. 1 Kings 22:8, 27; Proverbs 1:30; Isaiah 5:18, 19; Isaiah 28:14, 22; Jeremiah 36:29
  • 13. Psalms 36:1; Psalms 64:5; Jeremiah 36:16
  • 14. Genesis 37:29, 34; 2 Samuel 1:11; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 19:1, 2; 2 Kings 22:11, 19; Isaiah 36:22; Isaiah 37:1; Jonah 3:6
  • 15. Gen 37:22, 26, 27; Acts 5:34-39

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit "from his mouth," and so throughout this context
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