Jeremiah 36:29

Jeremiah 36:29

Jeremiah Rewrites the Scroll

27 Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch had written at the instruction of Jeremiah, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:

28 “Take yet another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ^a‘Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and cause man and beast to ^bcease from here?’ ”

30 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: ^a“He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be ^bcast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

31 I will punish him, his family, and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced against them; but they did not heed.” ’ ”

32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the instruction of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And besides, there were added to them many similar words.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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say to Jehoiakim—not in person, as Jeremiah was "hidden" (Jeremiah 36:26), but by the written word of prophecy.

saying, Why—This is what the king had desired to be said to Jeremiah if he should be found; kings often dislike the truth to be told them.

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