Jeremiah 36:29

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

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?'

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Thou hast: Deuteronomy 29:19, Job 15:24, Job 40:8, Isaiah 45:9, Acts 5:39, 1 Corinthians 10:22

Why: Jeremiah 26:9, Jeremiah 32:3, Isaiah 29:21, Isaiah 30:10, Acts 5:28

The king: Jeremiah 21:4-7, Jeremiah 21:10, Jeremiah 28:8, Jeremiah 32:28-30, Jeremiah 34:21, Jeremiah 34:22

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:19 - thine heart Ezra 6:1 - rolls Jeremiah 21:6 - I will Jeremiah 33:12 - without Jeremiah 35:1 - in the Jeremiah 36:2 - a roll Jeremiah 36:23 - he cut Jeremiah 52:2 - according Ezekiel 2:10 - lamentations Ezekiel 14:13 - and will cut Zephaniah 1:2 - I will

Cross-References

Genesis 36:20
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Genesis 36:28
These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

Genesis 36:41
Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

Genesis 36:42
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

1 Chronicles 1:38
The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah,.... Or, "concerning" w him; since the prophet was hid, and he was in quest of him; nor was it safe for him to appear in person before him; though this may be understood as what should be put into the second roll, and in that he addressed to him:

thus saith the Lord, thou hast burnt this roll; or "that roll"; or had suffered or ordered it to be burnt, giving this as a reason for it:

saying, why hast thou therein written; what the king would have to be a great falsehood, and which he thought never came from the Lord; but was a device of Jeremiah, to whom he ascribed the writing of them, though it was Baruch's, because dictated by him:

saying, the king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land,

and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? by killing some, and carrying off others, so that the destruction should be complete. He takes no notice of himself and his family, as if his concern was only for the nation; and that he took it ill that anything should be said which expressed the ruin of that, and might dishearten the inhabitants of it.

w על "de", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The king of Babylon ... - These words do not prove that Nebuchadnezzar had not already come, and compelled Jehoiakim to become his vassal. The force lies in the last words, which predict such a coming as would make the land utterly desolate: and this would be the result of the king throwing off the Chaldaean yoke.