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In the fourth year of Jehoi '
akim the son of Josi '
ah ,
king of Judah ,
this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD :
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Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations ,
from the day I spoke to you ,
from the days of Josi '
ah until today .
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It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them ,
so that every one may turn from his evil way ,
and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin ."
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Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neri '
ah ,
and Baruch wrote upon a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which he had spoken to him .
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And Jeremiah ordered Baruch ,
saying , "
I am debarred from going to the house of the LORD ;
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so you are to go ,
and on a fast day in the hearing of all the people in the LORD '
s house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll which you have written at my dictation .
You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities .
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It may be that their supplication will come before the LORD ,
and that every one will turn from his evil way ,
for great is the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people ."
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And Baruch the son of Neri '
ah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD '
s house .
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In the fifth year of Jehoi '
akim the son of Josi '
ah ,
king of Judah ,
in the ninth month ,
all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD .
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Then ,
in the hearing of all the people ,
Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll ,
in the house of the LORD ,
in the chamber of Gemari '
ah the son of Shaphan the secretary ,
which was in the upper court ,
at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD '
s house .
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When Micai '
ah the son of Gemari '
ah ,
son of Shaphan ,
heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll ,
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he went down to the king '
s house ,
into the secretary '
s chamber ;
and all the princes were sitting there :
Eli '
shama the secretary ,
Delai '
ah the son of Shemai '
ah ,
Elna '
than the son of Achbor ,
Gemari '
ah the son of Shaphan ,
Zedeki '
ah the son of Hanani '
ah ,
and all the princes .
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And Micai '
ah told them all the words that he had heard ,
when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people .
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Then all the princes sent Jehu '
di the son of Nethani '
ah ,
son of Shelemi '
ah ,
son of Cushi ,
to say to Baruch , "
Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people ,
and come ."
So Baruch the son of Neri '
ah took the scroll in his hand and came to them .
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And they said to him , "
Sit down and read it ."
So Baruch read it to them .
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When they heard all the words ,
they turned one to another in fear ;
and they said to Baruch , "
We must report all these words to the king ."
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Then they asked Baruch , "
Tell us ,
how did you write all these words ?
Was it at his dictation ?"
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Baruch answered them , "
He dictated all these words to me ,
while I wrote them with ink on the scroll ."
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Then the princes said to Baruch , "
Go and hide ,
you and Jeremiah ,
and let no one know where you are ."
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So they went into the court to the king ,
having put the scroll in the chamber of Eli '
shama the secretary ;
and they reported all the words to the king .
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Then the king sent Jehu '
di to get the scroll ,
and he took it from the chamber of Eli '
shama the secretary ;
and Jehu '
di read it to the king and all the princes who stood beside the king .
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It was the ninth month ,
and the king was sitting in the winter house and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him .
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As Jehu '
di read three or four columns ,
the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier ,
until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier .
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Yet neither the king ,
nor any of his servants who heard all these words ,
was afraid ,
nor did they rend their garments .
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Even when Elna '
than and Delai '
ah and Gemari '
ah urged the king not to burn the scroll ,
he would not listen to them .
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And the king commanded Jerah '
meel the king '
s son and Serai '
ah the son of Az '
ri-el and Shelemi '
ah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet ,
but the LORD hid them .
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Now ,
after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch wrote at Jeremiah '
s dictation ,
the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah :