Jeremiah 36:24

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Contextual Overview

²⁰So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king. ²¹The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him. ²²Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him. ²³And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire. ²⁴Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.²⁵Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah had urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them. ²⁷After the king had burned the scroll with the words Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: ²⁸"Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned. ²⁹You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, 'Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?'

Bible Verse Review
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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
You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

Deuteronomy 2:10
(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

2 Samuel 13:29
So Absalom's young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the rest of the king's sons got up, and each one fled on his mule.

2 Samuel 18:9
Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak, Absalom's head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

1 Kings 1:38
Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David's mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:44
And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king's mule.

1 Kings 4:28
Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

Zechariah 14:15
And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

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.