Jeremiah 36:24

THE MESSAGE

Neither the king nor any of his officials showed the slightest twinge of conscience as they listened to the messages read. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah tried to convince the king not to burn the scroll, but he brushed them off. He just plowed ahead and ordered Prince Jerahameel, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Jeremiah the prophet and his secretary Baruch. But God had hidden them away.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As they heard all these words, the king and all of his servants did not become terrified or tear their clothes.

Hebrew Names Version
They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

King James Version
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

English Standard Version
Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

New American Standard Bible
Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words did not tremble in fear, nor did they tear their garments.

New Century Version
King Jehoiakim and his servants heard everything that was said, but they were not frightened! They did not tear their clothes to show their sorrow.

Amplified Bible
Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their clothes.

World English Bible
They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet they were not afraide, nor rent their garmets, neither the King, nor any of his seruants, that heard all these wordes.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not in dread, nor did they tear their garments.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.

Complete Jewish Bible
But even though they heard all these words, neither the king nor any of his servants grew afraid or tore their clothes.

Darby Translation
And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

Easy-to-Read Version
And, when King Jehoiakim and his servants heard the message from the scroll, they were not afraid. They did not tear their clothes to show sorrow for doing wrong.

George Lamsa Translation
Yet neither the king nor any of his servants were afraid, nor did they tear their garments when they heard all these words.

Good News Translation
But neither the king nor any of his officials who heard all this was afraid or showed any sign of sorrow.

Lexham English Bible
And the king and any of his servants who heard all these words were not startled, and they did not tear their garments.

Literal Translation
Yet the king and all his servants who heard these Words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yet no man was abashed therof, or rente his clothes: nether the kynge himselffe, ner his seruauntes, though they herde all these wordes.

American Standard Version
And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

Bible in Basic English
But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

King James Version (1611)
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his seruants that heard all these words.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yet no man was abashed therof, nor rent his clothes, neither the kyng hym selfe nor his seruauntes, though they hearde all these wordes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And to Samaeas the Ælamite thou shalt say,

English Revised Version
And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the kyng and alle hise seruauntis, that herden alle these wordis, dredden not, nethir to-renten her clothis.

Update Bible Version
And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his slaves that heard all these words.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

New English Translation
Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.

New King James Version
Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

New Living Translation
Neither the king nor his attendants showed any signs of fear or repentance at what they heard.

New Life Bible
The king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and they did not tear their clothes.

New Revised Standard
Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet were they not in dread, neither rent they their garments, - the king, nor any of his servants that were hearing all these words.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king and all his servants that heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

Revised Standard Version
Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king and all his servants who are hearing all these words have not been afraid, nor rent their garments.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

Contextual Overview

²⁰The officials went to the court of the palace to report to the king, having put the scroll for safekeeping in the office of Elishama the secretary of state. The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He brought it from the office of Elishama the secretary. Jehudi then read it to the king and the officials who were in the king's service. ²²It was December. The king was sitting in his winter quarters in front of a charcoal fire. After Jehudi would read three or four columns, the king would cut them off the scroll with his pocketknife and throw them in the fire. He continued in this way until the entire scroll had been burned up in the fire. ²⁴Neither the king nor any of his officials showed the slightest twinge of conscience as they listened to the messages read. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah tried to convince the king not to burn the scroll, but he brushed them off. He just plowed ahead and ordered Prince Jerahameel, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Jeremiah the prophet and his secretary Baruch. But God had hidden them away. ²⁷After the king had burned the scroll that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, Jeremiah received this Message from God : "Get another blank scroll and do it all over again. Write out everything that was in that first scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up. ²⁹ "And send this personal message to Jehoiakim king of Judah: ‘ God says, You had the gall to burn this scroll and then the nerve to say, "What kind of nonsense is this written here—that the king of Babylon will come and destroy this land and kill everything in it?" ³⁰"‘Well, do you want to know what God says about Jehoiakim king of Judah? This: No descendant of his will ever rule from David's throne. His corpse will be thrown in the street and left unburied, exposed to the hot sun and the freezing night. I will punish him and his children and the officials in his government for their blatant sin. I'll let loose on them and everyone in Jerusalem the doomsday disaster of which I warned them but they spit at.'" ³² So Jeremiah went and got another scroll and gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, his secretary. At Jeremiah's dictation he again wrote down everything that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. There were also generous additions, but of the same kind of thing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Jeremiah 36:16, Job 15:4, Psalms 36:1, Psalms 64:5, Isaiah 26:11, Romans 3:18

nor rent: Jeremiah 5:3, 1 Kings 21:27, 2 Kings 19:1, 2 Kings 19:2, 2 Kings 22:11-19, 2 Chronicles 34:19-31, Isaiah 36:22, Isaiah 37:1, Jonah 3:6, Matthew 12:41

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:34 - General Exodus 7:23 - neither Leviticus 13:45 - his clothes 2 Kings 5:7 - that he rent 2 Kings 18:37 - with their clothes rent 2 Kings 22:19 - thine heart 2 Chronicles 34:27 - didst rend Ezra 9:3 - rent Ecclesiastes 3:7 - time to rend Jeremiah 2:19 - and that my Jeremiah 28:10 - took Jeremiah 34:10 - when Jeremiah 44:10 - neither Zechariah 1:4 - but Matthew 26:65 - the high priest Mark 14:63 - his Acts 14:14 - they

Cross-References

Leviticus 19:19
"Keep my decrees. "Don't mate two different kinds of animals. "Don't plant your fields with two kinds of seed. "Don't wear clothes woven of two kinds of material.

Deuteronomy 2:10
The Emites (Monsters) used to live there—mobs of hulking giants, like Anakites. Along with the Anakites they were lumped in with the Rephaites (Ghosts) but in Moab they were called Emites. Horites also used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau took over and destroyed them, the same as Israel did in the land God gave them to possess.

2 Samuel 13:29
Absalom's servants did to Amnon exactly what their master ordered. All the king's sons got out as fast as they could, jumped on their mules, and rode off. While they were still on the road, a rumor came to the king: "Absalom just killed all the king's sons—not one is left!" The king stood up, ripped his clothes to shreds, and threw himself on the floor. All his servants who were standing around at the time did the same.

2 Samuel 18:9
Absalom ran into David's men, but was out in front of them riding his mule, when the mule ran under the branches of a huge oak tree. Absalom's head was caught in the oak and he was left dangling between heaven and earth, the mule running right out from under him. A solitary soldier saw him and reported it to Joab, "I just saw Absalom hanging from an oak tree!"

1 Kings 1:38
Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the king's personal bodyguard (the Kerethites and Pelethites) went down, mounted Solomon on King David's mule, and paraded with him to Gihon. Zadok the priest brought a flask of oil from the sanctuary and anointed Solomon. They blew the ram's horn trumpet and everyone shouted, "Long live King Solomon!" Everyone joined the fanfare, the band playing and the people singing, the very earth reverberating to the sound.

Zechariah 14:15
The Day Is Coming Note well: God 's Judgment Day is on the way: "Plunder will be piled high and handed out. I'm bringing all the godless nations to war against Jerusalem— Houses plundered, women raped, Half the city taken into exile, the other half left behind." But then God will march out against the godless nations and fight—a great war! That's the Day he'll take his stand on the Mount of Olives, facing Jerusalem from the east. The Mount of Olives will be split right down the middle, from east to west, leaving a wide valley. Half the mountain will shift north, the other half south. Then you will run for your lives down the valley, your escape route that will take you all the way to Azal. You'll run for your lives, just as you ran on the day of the great earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. Then my God will arrive and all the holy angels with him. What a Day that will be! No more cold nights—in fact, no more nights! The Day is coming—the timing is God 's—when it will be continuous day. Every evening will be a fresh morning. What a Day that will be! Fresh flowing rivers out of Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea, half to the western sea, flowing year-round, summer and winter! God will be king over all the earth, one God and only one. What a Day that will be! The land will stretch out spaciously around Jerusalem—to Geba in the north and Rimmon in the south, with Jerusalem towering at the center, and the commanding city gates—Gate of Benjamin to First Gate to Corner Gate to Hananel Tower to the Royal Winery—ringing the city full of people. Never again will Jerusalem be totally destroyed. From now on it will be a safe city. But this is what will happen to all who fought against Jerusalem: God will visit them with a terrible plague. People's flesh will rot off their bones while they are walking around; their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongues in their mouths; people will be dying on their feet! Mass hysteria when that happens—total panic! Fellow soldiers fighting and killing each other—holy terror! And then Judah will jump into the fray! Treasures from all the nations will be piled high—gold, silver, the latest fashions. The plague will also hit the animals—horses, mules, camels, donkeys. Everything alive in the military camps will be hit by the plague.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,.... They were not struck with horror at such an impious action as the burning of the roll; nor afraid of the judgments and wrath of God threatened in it; nor did they rend their garments in token of sorrow and mourning on account of either, as used to be when anything blasphemous was said or done, or any bad news were brought. The Jews from hence conclude, that whenever a man sees the book of the law torn of cut to pieces, he should rend his garments t. The persons here meant are not the princes that first heard the roll read in the secretary's office, for they were afraid, Jeremiah 36:16; unless they now dissembled in the king's presence, or had shook off their fears; however, if they are included, three must be excepted, whose names are mentioned in Jeremiah 36:25; and those who are more especially designed are expressed in the next clause:

[neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words; not all that were in the roll, for they only heard a part; but all that were in that part, which was enough to make them fear and tremble; but they were hardened in their sins; and by the hardness and impenitence of their hearts treasured up wrath against the day of wrath. These servants of the king seem to be those in waiting, and not the princes that came to him; however, they were not all of this complexion and character, since it follows:

t T. Bab. Moed Katon, fol. 26. 1.