“1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying, 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words
that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days
of Josiah, even unto this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will
hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return
every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their
sin. 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote
from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had
spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. 5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch,
saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD: 6
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my
mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD’S
house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of
all Judah that come out of their cities. 7 It may be they will present
their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his
evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath
pronounced against this people. 8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did
according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the
book the words of the LORD in the LORD’S house.”
“9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast
before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people
that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. 10 Then read Baruch
in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the
chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court,
at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’S house, in the ears of all the
people. 11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, 12 Then he went down
into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the
princes sat there, [even] Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of
Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of
Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. 13 Then
Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch
read the book in the ears of the people. 14 Therefore all the princes
sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi,
unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read
in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took
the roll in his hand, and came unto them. 15 And they said unto him, Sit
down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears. 16
Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid
both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king
of all these words. 17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How
didst thou write all these words at his mouth? 18 Then Baruch answered
them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote
[them] with ink in the book. 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go,
hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.”
“20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the
roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in
the ears of the king. 21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and
he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in
the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood
beside the king. 22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth
month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him. 23 And
it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he
cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the
hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the
hearth. 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither]
the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. 25
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to
the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. 26
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the
son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them. 27 Then the word
of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll,
and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 28
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that
were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD;
Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land,
and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 30 Therefore thus
saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit
upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day
to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 31 And I will punish him and
his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon
them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah,
all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened
not. 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in
the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.”
(Jeremiah 36:1-32 AV)