YHWH TELLS JEREMIAH TO WRITE DOWN HIS PROPHECIES (JEREMIAH 36:1). Jeremiah 36:1 ‘And it came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,' This event is fairly precisely dated, occurring in 605 BC. It may possibly have... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH WRITES OUT HIS PROPHECIES IN WRITTEN FORM AND COMMITS THEM TO BARUCH WHO READS THEM OUT IN THE TEMPLE. THE SCROLL EVENTUALLY REACHES JEHOIAKIM WHO DEMONSTRATES HIS CONTEMPT FOR THE PROPHET BY SLOWLY BURNING IT ONCE IT HAS BEEN READ OUT, SOMETHING THAT CAUSES YHWH TO PRONOUNCE JUDGMENT ON HI... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH CALLS ON BARUCH TO ACT AS HIS AMANUENSIS AND HAVING DICTATED HIS PROPHECIES SENDS HIM TO THE TEMPLE TO READ THEM OUT TO THE CROWDS WHO ARE GATHERED THERE ON A SPECIAL FAST DAY (JEREMIAH 36:4). One of the purposes of the writing out of the prophecies at this time would appear to be that a sp... [ Continue Reading ]
BARUCH'S READING OF THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH IN THE TEMPLE COMES TO THE EARS OF THE PRINCES OF JUDAH WHO SUMMON HIM TO READ IT BEFORE THEM (JEREMIAH 36:9). Baruch's (or Jeremiah's) influence comes out in that he was able to make use of ‘the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe' from which to... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRINCES HAVING LISTENED TO WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE SCROLL ASCERTAIN THE FACTS ABOUT IT AND FEEL IT NECESSARY TO INFORM THE KING ABOUT ITS CONTENTS MEANWHILE ADVISING BARUCH AND JEREMIAH TO GO INTO HIDING (JEREMIAH 36:16). The whole gathering were stirred by the words, for they were clearly a se... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SCROLL IS BROUGHT TO THE KING AND IS READ BEFORE HIM AND ON HEARING EACH SECTION HE CUTS IT UP WITH A KNIFE AND BURNS IT AFTER WHICH HE CALLS FOR THE ARREST OF JEREMIAH AND BARUCH WHO ARE, HOWEVER, IN HIDING AND CANNOT BE FOUND (JEREMIAH 36:20). When the king learned about the scroll he command... [ Continue Reading ]
YHWH COMMANDS JEREMIAH TO REWRITE THE SCROLL AND DECLARES THE PUNISHMENT THAT HE WILL BRING ON KING JEHOIAKIM BECAUSE OF WHAT HE HAS DONE (JEREMIAH 36:27). Jeremiah is consequently told to prepare a second scroll containing details of his prophecies, to replace the one that had been burned, and he t... [ Continue Reading ]