Jeremiah 36:26

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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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Hammelech: or, the king

to take: Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 26:21-23, 1 Kings 19:1-3, 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:14, Matthew 23:34-37, Matthew 26:47-50, John 7:32, John 8:20, John 11:57

but: Jeremiah 36:5, Jeremiah 36:19, Jeremiah 1:19, Jeremiah 15:20, Jeremiah 15:21, 1 Kings 17:3, 1 Kings 17:9, 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:10-12, 2 Kings 6:18-20, Psalms 27:5, Psalms 32:7, Psalms 57:1, Psalms 64:2, Psalms 91:1, Psalms 121:8, Isaiah 26:20, John 8:59, Acts 12:11

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:6 - hid them 1 Samuel 23:14 - but God 2 Kings 6:13 - spy where Proverbs 28:12 - but Jeremiah 12:5 - canst Jeremiah 20:2 - smote Jeremiah 32:12 - Baruch Jeremiah 36:4 - Baruch Jeremiah 38:6 - Hammelech Jeremiah 43:3 - Baruch Jeremiah 45:1 - when Acts 12:19 - sought for him Hebrews 11:5 - and was

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:41
The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech,.... Or, "the king's son", as the Targum; though it rather seems to be the proper name of a person, one of the king's servants; since it is not probable he would send his own son on such an errand; and had he, he would rather have been called his own son than the king's son; besides, Jeconiah, who succeeded him, seems to be his eldest son, and yet he now could not be more than twelve years of age; whereas this Jerahmeel must be a man grown; and had he been an elder son, as he must, he would have succeeded him, unless it can be thought that he died before his father:

and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; in order to bring them before the king, or to imprison them, or put them to death, for which they might have the king's warrant; the one for prophesying, and the other for writing out and reading his prophecies; though Baruch may be called a scribe, not for being the amanuensis of Jeremiah; but because he was one of the scribes of the law, or doctors of the people:

but the Lord hid them; the princes advised them to hide themselves, and they did, very probably in a house of some of their friends; but this would not have been sufficient, had not the Lord took them under his protection; there was no doubt a special providence concerned for them; but by what means this preservation was is not known. Kimchi suggests that these messengers sought for them in the very place where they were, and could not find them; and conjectures that the Lord set darkness about them, or weakened the visive faculty of those that searched for them, that they could not see them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hammelech - Either a proper name or a prince of the blood royal (see the margin; Jeremiah 38:6; 1 Kings 22:26).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 36:26. But the Lord hid them. — They had, at the counsel of some of the princes, hidden themselves, Jeremiah 36:19. And now, though a diligent search was made, the Lord did not permit them to be found.