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Then JeremiahcalledBaruch the son of Neriah, and Baruchwrote on a scroll* at the dictation of Jeremiahall the words of the LORDwhich He had spoken to him.
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"So you go and read from the scrollwhich you have written at my dictation the words of the LORD to the people in the LORD'Shouse on a fastday. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.
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"Perhaps their supplication will comebefore the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evilway, for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronouncedagainstthispeople."
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Now in the fifthyear of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninthmonth, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalemproclaimed a fastbefore the LORD.
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Then Baruchread from 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 uppercourt, at the entry of the NewGate of the LORD'Shouse, to all the people.
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he wentdown to the king'shouse, into the scribe'schamber. And behold, all the officials were sittingthere-Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
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Then all the officialssentJehudi 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 Neriahtook the scroll in his hand and went to them.
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So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they reported*all the words to the king.
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Then the kingsentJehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudiread it to the king as well as to all the officials who stoodbeside* the king.
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When Jehudi had readthree or fourcolumns, the king cut it with a scribe'sknife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, untilall the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
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And the kingcommandedJerahmeel the king'sson, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seizeBaruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORDhid them.
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Then the word of the LORDcame to Jeremiahafter the king had burned the scroll and the wordswhichBaruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying,
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"And concerningJehoiakimking of Judah you shall say, 'Thussays the LORD, "You have burnedthisscroll, saying, 'Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainlycome and destroythisland, and will make man and beast to cease from it?' "
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'Thereforethussays the LORDconcerningJehoiakimking of Judah, "He shall haveno one to sit on the throne of David, and his deadbody shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
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"I will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judahall the calamity that I have declared to them-but they did not listen.""'
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Then Jeremiahtookanotherscroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiahall the words of the bookwhichJehoiakimking of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.