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 ,
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Take thee a roll of a book ,
and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel Yisra #
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and against Judah ,
and against all the nations ,
from the day I spake unto thee ,
from the days of Josiah Yo #
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even unto this day .
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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 chatta #
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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 .
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And Jeremiah commanded Baruch ,
saying ,
I am shut up ;
I cannot go into the house of the LORD :
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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 LORDS house upon the fasting day :
and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities .
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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 .
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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 LORDS house .
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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 .
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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 thew gate of the LORDS house ,
in the ears of all the people .
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When Michaiah the son of Gemariah ,
the son of Shaphan ,
had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD ,
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Then he went down into the kings house ,
into the scribes chamber :
and ,
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all the princes sat there ,
even Elishama the scribe ,
and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah Sh @
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and Elnathan the son of Achbor ,
and Gemariah the son of Shaphan ,
and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah ,
and all the princes .
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Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard ,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people .
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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 .
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And they said unto him ,
Sit down now ,
and read it in our ears .
So Baruch read it in their ears .
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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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And they asked Baruch ,
saying ,
Tell us now ,
How didst thou write all these words at his mouth ?
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Then Baruch answered them ,
He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth ,
and I wrote them with ink in the book .
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Then said the princes unto Baruch ,
Go ,
hide thee ,
thou and Jeremiah ;
and let no man know where ye be .
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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 .
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So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll :
and he took it out of Elishama the scribes chamber .
And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king ,
and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king .
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Now the king sat in the winterhouse bayith #
in the ninth month :
and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him .
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And it came to pass ,
that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves ,
he cut it with the penknife #
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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 .
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Yet they were not afraid ,
nor rent their garments ,
neither the king ,
nor any of his servants that heard all these words .
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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 .
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But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech ,
and Seraiah the son of Azriel #
Azriy #
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and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel #
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to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet :
but the LORD hid them .
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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 ,
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .