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CHAPTER 36
The Indestructibility of the Word of God
_ 1. The writing of the roll (Jeremiah 36:1) _
2. The reading of the roll (Jeremiah 36:4)
3. The king cuts and burns the roll (Jeremiah 36
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JEREMIAH 36. THE WRITING OF THE ROLL. This chapter narrates how the
oral prophecies of Jeremiah were first put into writing (604 B.C.).
The account is obviously important for the criticism of this boo...
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WENT DOWN. Compare Jeremiah 22:1.
ELNATHAN. The king's emissary against Urijah (Jeremiah 26:22)....
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_he went down_ See on Jeremiah 22:1.
_Elnathan the son of Achbor_ mentioned ch. Jeremiah 26:22....
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See introd. summary to the chapter....
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3. _The reaction of the Princes_ (Jeremiah 36:11-19)
TRANSLATION
(11) When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all
the words of the LORD as they were read from the book, (12) he we...
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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...
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EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE COLLECTION OF JEREMIAH'S PROPHECIES INTO A
VOLUME (4TH AND 5TH YEARS OF JEHOIAKIM)
The prophecies concerning Israel and Judah are now ended, and we have
here the record of t...
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WENT DOWN] see on Jeremiah 22:1. ELNATHAN] mentioned in Jeremiah
26:22....
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AND, LO, ALL THE PRINCES SAT THERE. — The following particulars may
be noted as to the princes thus named. Elishama may have been
identical with the prince of that name in 2 Kings 25:25, and, if so,
w...
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וַ יֵּ֤רֶד בֵּית ־הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ עַל
־לִשְׁכַּ֣
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CHAPTER III
THE ROLL
Jeremiah 36:1
"Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken unto thee."- Jeremiah 36:2
THE incidents which form so large a proportion of the c...
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A VAIN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY GOD'S WORD
Jeremiah 36:1-32
These written words had been directly given from God, Jeremiah 36:18.
The fast was instituted to seek divine help in the approaching
conflict wit...
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This chapter constitutes an interpolation in the chronological order
of Jeremiah's prophesying. In detail it tells the story of the writing
of the words of Jeremiah in a book to which he had incidenta...
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It should seem,, that Baruch made great use of this roll, and read in
it to the people continually! For it was in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim that he wrote it, and began to read it; and here we find...
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It is not known with what design this Michaiah came to the princes and
the king’s counsellors, he may have been an informer, who intended
to create ill-will to the Prophet, and to ingratiate himself w...
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Chapter 36 furnishes us with another example of the obstinacy with
which the kings of Judah despised the call and the testimony of God.
Jeremiah was shut up; but God can never fail in means to address...
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THEN HE WENT DOWN INTO THE KING'S HOUSE,.... The royal palace, which
was not upon the mountain on which the temple stood, but lay lower,
and therefore Micaiah is said to go down to it; with what desig...
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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...
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_When Michaiah, the son of Shaphan, had heard_, &c. Shaphan's family
were all great men at court: see note on Jeremiah 26:24; _he went down
into the king's house_, &c. It is uncertain whether this Mic...
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then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber,
into the office of the chancellor in the royal palace; AND, LO, ALL
THE PRINCES SAT THERE, the king's counselors sitting in the offi...
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THE PROPHECIES RECORDED AND READ...
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9-19 Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those, who,
though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to
the power of it. The princes patiently attended the reading o...
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It is uncertain whether this _Michaiah_ went to make this relation to
the princes who sat in the secretary's chamber, as a piece of news
only, or out of a malicious design to accuse the prophet and Ba...
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Jeremiah 36:12 down H3381 (H8799) kings H4428 house H1004 scribes
H5608 (H8802) chamber H3957 princes H8269 sit
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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...
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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...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's writing in the days of Jehoiakim. Reading on the
fast day. Burning of the roll and orders to persecute Jeremiah.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Josiah, Baruch, Gemariah,
M...
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Jeremiah 36:1. _The fourth year of Jehoiakim._ Though this chapter
seems out of its place, yet it may not be so, but may be a reference
to past events.
Jeremiah 36:2. _Take thee a roll of a book._ Anc...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE
CHAPTER.—“_Fourth of Jehoiakim._” See Note on chap. 25.
2. NATIONAL AFFAIRS.—Jehoiakim was at that time vassal of
Pharoah-Necho; but Nebuchadnezzar...
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CHAPTERS 36-38.
NARRATIVE OF EVENTS PRECEDING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.
Jeremiah 36:1.
THE ROLL OF PROPHECY DESTROYED BY JEHOIAK
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This time shall we turn to Jeremiah chapter 36 as we continue our
journey through the Word of God towards heaven.
Now as we have pointed out, the prophecies of Jeremiah are not in
chronological order...
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2 Kings 22:12; 2 Kings 22:14; 2 Kings 22:3; 2 Kings 24:8; Jeremia
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THE WORD OF THE LORD
Jeremiah 36:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We want to show you how it was that Jeremiah spoke not his own words,
but the words of the Lord. In order to do this, we want to place
before y...