Jeremiah 36:13View Full Chapter

¹³ Micaiah told them all the words he heard Baruch read from the scroll before the people.

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¹⁴ Then all the officials sent Jehudi, Nethaniah’s son and Shelemiah’s grandson, and Cushi’s great-grandson, to Baruch: “Take the scroll you read to the people and come with me.”

So Baruch, Neriah’s son, took the scroll and went to the officials.

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¹⁵ They said to him, “Sit down and read it to us.” So Baruch read it to them.

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¹⁶ When they heard all its words, they were alarmed and said to Baruch: “We must at once report all this to the king!”

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¹⁷ Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you write all these words? Did they come from Jeremiah?”

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¹⁸ Baruch replied, “He dictated all the words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the scroll.”

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¹⁹ The officials then said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah had better go and hide. And don’t let anyone know where you are.”

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²⁶ The king commanded Jerahmeel, the king’s son, along with Seraiah, Azriel’s son, and Shelemiah, Abdeel’s son, to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them.

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²⁷ The Lord’s word came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll containing the words written by Baruch at Jeremiah’s dictation:

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³² So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch, Neriah’s son, who wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words in the scroll burned in the fire by Judah’s King Jehoiakim. Many similar words were added to them.

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Writing from Babylon

1 These are the words of the scroll that Baruch—son of Neriah son of Mahseiah son of Zedekiah son of Hasadiah son of Hilkiah—wrote in Babylon ² in the fifth year on the seventh day of the month at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it down.

³ Baruch read the words of this scroll aloud to Judah’s King Jeconiah, Jehoiakim’s son, and to all the people who came to hear the reading of the scroll, ⁴ and to the powerful ones, the rulers’ sons, the elders, and all the people, from the least important to the greatest, and to all the ones who lived in Babylon by the Sud River. ⁵ They wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord. ⁶ They collected silver from everyone able to give, and ⁷ they sent it to Jerusalem to the priest Jehoiakim, Hilkiah’s son, Shallum’s grandson, and to the other priests, and to all the people who were with Jehoiakim in Jerusalem. ⁸ During the same time, on the tenth day of Sivan, Baruch took the equipment from the Lord’s house that had been removed from the temple—the silver equipment that Judah’s King Zedekiah, Josiah’s son, had made—to return it to Judah. (⁹ This occurred after Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar removed Jeconiah, the leading officials, the prisoners, the powerful ones, and the land’s people from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.)

Response to Jerusalem

¹⁰ And the people in exile said:

We have sent you silver. Buy what is needed for entirely burned offerings and sin offerings. Buy incense and prepare grain as well, and offer them on the Lord our God’s altar.

¹¹ Pray for the lives of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his son Belshazzar that their days on earth may be like the days of heaven. ¹² The Lord will give us strength and clear vision. We’ll live under the protection of King Nebuchadnezzar and his son Belshazzar, and we’ll serve them many days and find favor with them.

¹³ Pray for us to the Lord our God because we have sinned against the Lord our God. Even now, the Lord’s wrath and anger haven’t turned away from us. ¹⁴ Read aloud this scroll that we sent to you to make it public in the Lord’s house on every festival day and appointed time.

Sins of the community

¹⁵ You will say:

Justice is on the side of the Lord God, but public shame is upon us today, upon everyone in Judah, upon those living in Jerusalem, ¹⁶ and upon our rulers, leading officials, priests, prophets, and ancestors, ¹⁷ upon all of us who have sinned against the Lord.

¹⁸ We have disobeyed the Lord. We have not listened to the Lord God’s voice so as to keep the commandments that he gave to us. ¹⁹ From the day when the Lord brought our ancestors from the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God and have acted carelessly by not listening to his voice. ²⁰ Therefore, to this day horrible things have come upon us, even the curse that the Lord ordered through Moses his servant in the day when he brought our ancestors out of Egypt to give us a prosperous land full of milk and honey. ²¹ But we didn’t listen to the Lord God’s voice through the prophets whom he sent to us. ²² All of us went off in the direction of our own evil hearts, serving other gods and doing horrible things in the presence of our Lord God.