Jeremiah:36

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* 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 , * 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 Gentiles , from the day I [began ] to speak unto thee , from the days of Josiah , unto today . * If peradventure the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them ; that they may turn each one from his evil way ; and I will forgive their iniquity and their sin . * 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 . * And Jeremiah commanded Baruch , saying , I [am ] shut up ; I cannot go into the house of the LORD : * therefore go thou , and read from 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 day of fasting : and also in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities . Thou shalt read them * if peradventure their prayer will fall into the presence of the LORD , and they shall turn each one from his evil way ; for great [is ] the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people . * 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 . * 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 of Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem . * Then Baruch read 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 . * When Michaiah the son of Gemariah , the son of Shaphan , had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD , * then he went down into the king 's house , into the scribe 's chamber ; and , behold , 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 . * Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people . * 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 . * And they said unto him , Sit down now and read it in our ears . So Baruch read [it ] in their ears . * Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words , each one turned to his companion in fear , and they said unto Baruch , We will surely tell the king of all these words . * And they asked Baruch , saying , Tell us now , How didst thou write all these words at his mouth ? * Then Baruch answered them , He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth , and I wrote [them ] with ink in the book . * Then the princes said unto Baruch , Go , hide thee , thou and Jeremiah ; and let no man know where ye be . * 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 . * So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll : and he took it out of Elishama the scribe 's chamber . And Jehudi read in it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king . * Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month , and [there was a fire ] on the hearth burning before him . * 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 . * Yet they were not afraid , nor rent their garments , [neither ] the king , nor any of his servants that heard all these words . * Nevertheless [when ] Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah made intercession to the king that he not burn the roll ; he would not hear them . * 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 . * Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah , after the king burned the roll , the words which Baruch had written at the mouth of Jeremiah , saying : * 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 has burned . * And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah , Thus hath the LORD said : 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 there man and beast ? * Therefore thus hath the LORD said unto Jehoiakim king of Judah : He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David ; and his body shall be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost . * And I will visit upon him and upon his seed and upon his servants , 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 did not hearken . * Then Jeremiah took 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 upon them many like words .:

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