And it
came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came
unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
02 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein
all the words that I have spoken unto thee
against Israel, and against Judah, and against
all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee,
from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
03 It may be that the house of Judah will hear
all the evil which I purpose to do unto them;
that they may return every man from his evil way;
that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
04 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah:
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all
the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto
him, upon a roll of a book.
05 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am
shut up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord:
06 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which
thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the
Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord's
house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt
read them in the ears of all Judah that come out
of their cities.
07 It may be they will present their supplication
before the Lord, and will return every one from
his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury
that the Lord hath pronounced against this
people.
08 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to
all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,
reading in the book the words of the Lord in the
Lord's house.
09 And it came to pass in the fifth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the
ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before
the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to
all the people that came from the cities of Judah
unto Jerusalem.
10 Then read Baruch in 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
higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the
Lord's house, in the ears of all the people.
11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words
of the Lord,
12 Then he went down into the king's house, into
the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes
sat there, even 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
princes.
13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words
that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in
the ears of the people.
14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son
of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand
the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of
the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah
took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read
it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all
the words, they were afraid both one and other,
and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the
king of all these words.
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17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now,
How didst thou write all these words at his
mouth?
18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all
these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote
them with ink in the book.
19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide
thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know
where ye be.
20 And they went in to the king into the court,
but they laid up the roll in the chamber of
Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in
the ears of the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and
he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber.
And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and
in the ears of all the princes which stood beside
the king.
22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the
ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth
burning before him.
23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read
three or four leaves, he cut it with the
penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on
the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in
the fire that was on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their
garments, neither the king, nor any of his
servants that heard all these words.
25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah
had made intercession to the king that he would
not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of
Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and
Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid
them.
27 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah,
after that the king had burned the roll, and the
words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of
Jeremiah, saying,
28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it
all the former words that were in the first roll,
which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah,
Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burned this roll,
saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying,
The king of Babylon shall certainly come and
destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from
thence man and beast?
30 Therefore thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim
king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the
throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast
out in the day to the heat, and in the night to
the frost.
31 And I will punish him and his seed and his
servants for their iniquity; and I will bring
upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I
have pronounced against them; but they hearkened
not.
32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it
to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who
wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the
words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah
had burned in the fire: and there were added
besides unto them many like words.
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