Page 1094 - The MacArthur Daily Bible

TN_10_MacArthur_Bible_Oct.qxd 8/8/03 16:59 Page 1075

OCTOBER 25
Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber;
2
the LORD, saying: “Take a scroll of a book and and there all the princes were sitting—
write on it all the words that I have spoken to Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of
you against Israel, against Judah, and against Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gema-
all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, riah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of
13
3
from the days of Josiah even to this day. It Hananiah, and all the princes. Then Michaiah
may be that the house of Judah will hear all declared to them all the words that he had
the adversities which I purpose to bring upon heard when Baruch read the book in the hear-
14
them, that everyone may turn from his evil ing of the people. Therefore all the princes
way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of
sin.” Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying,
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of “Take in your hand the scroll from which you
Neriah; and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, have read in the hearing of the people, and
at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the
15
5
the LORD which He had spoken to him. And scroll in his hand and came to them. And they
Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our
hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
16 Now it happened, when they had heard all
the words, that they looked in fear from one to
another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely
36:4 Baruch wrote. Jeremiah’s recording sec- 17
retary wrote the prophet’s messages and tell the king of all these words.” And they
penned them a second time after the first scroll asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did
was burned (36:32). He also read the messages you write all these words—at his instruction?”
18 So Baruch answered them, “He pro-
in the temple (v. 10) and in the palace (v. 15).
Later, Jehudi read a small part of the first scroll claimed with his mouth all these words to me,
before King Jehoiakim (vv.21–23). and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
19 Then the princes said to Baruch, “Go and
hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no one know
confined, I cannot go into the house of the where you are.”
LORD. You go, therefore, and read from the 20 And they went to the king, into the court;
6
scroll which you have written at my instruc- but they stored the scroll in the chamber of
tion, the words of the LORD, in the hearing of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in
the people in the LORD’s house on the day of the hearing of the king. So the king sent
21
fasting. And you shall also read them in the Jehudi to bring the scroll, and he took it from
hearing of all Judah who come from their Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi
cities. It may be that they will present their read it in the hearing of the king and in the
7
supplication before the LORD, and everyone hearing of all the princes who stood beside the
22
will turn from his evil way. For great is the king. Now the king was sitting in the winter
anger and the fury that the LORD has pro- house in the ninth month, with a fire burning
23
8
nounced against this people.” And Baruch the on the hearth before him. And it happened,
son of Neriah did according to all that when Jehudi had read three or four columns,
Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, read- that the king cut it with the scribe’s knife and
ing from the book the words of the LORD in the cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until
LORD’s house. all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was
9 Now it came to pass in the fifth year of on the hearth. Yet they were not afraid, nor
24
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in did they tear their garments, the king nor any
the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast
before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem,
and to all the people who came from the cities
of Judah to Jerusalem. Then Baruch read
10
from the book the words of Jeremiah in the 36:23 cut it. As often as Jehudi read “three or
house of the LORD, in the chamber of four columns,” the king cut it up, doing so all
Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the the way through the whole scroll because he
upper court at the entry of the New Gate of the rejected the message (v. 29). Jehoiakim is the
LORD’s house, in the hearing of all the people. king who sent men to Egypt (chap. 26) to
11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the bring back God’s faithful prophet, Urijah, so
son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the that he could execute him.
12
LORD from the book, he then went down to
1075