Jeremiah · Bible in Basic English
Jeremiah 36 Bible in Basic English
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1 Now it came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 Take a book and put down in it all the words I have said to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day when my word came to you in the days of Josiah till this day.
2 “Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.
3 It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
4 Then Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah; and Baruch took down from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had said to him, writing them in a book.
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all Yahweh’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
5 And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:
5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.
6 So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come out from their towns.
6 Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
7 It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.
7 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”
8 And Baruch, the son of Neriah, did as Jeremiah the prophet gave him orders to do, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.
8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book Yahweh’s words in Yahweh’s house.
9 Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.
9 Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
10 Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all the people.
10 Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.
11 And Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, after hearing all the words of the Lord from the book,
11 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all Yahweh’s words,
12 Went down to the king's house, to the scribe's room: and all the rulers were seated there, 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 rulers.
12 he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
13 Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.
13 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14 So all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the book from which you have been reading to the people and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the book in his hand and came down to them.
14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
15 Then they said to him, Be seated now, and give us a reading from it. So Baruch did so, reading it to them.
15 They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
16 Now it came about that, after hearing all the words, they said to one another in fear, We will certainly give the king an account of all these words.
16 Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”
17 And questioning Baruch, they said, Say now, how did you put all these words down in writing from his mouth?
17 They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”
18 Then Baruch, answering, said, He said all these things to me by word of mouth, and I put them down with ink in the book.
18 Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
19 Then the rulers said to Baruch, Go and put yourself in a safe place, you and Jeremiah, and let no man have knowledge of where you are.
19 Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”
20 Then they went into the open square to the king; but the book they put away in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they gave the king an account of all the words.
20 They went in to the king into the court, but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.
22 Now the king was seated in the winter house, and a fire was burning in the fireplace in front of him.
22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
23 And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace.
23 When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
24 But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.
24 The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.
25 And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made a strong request to the king not to let the book be burned, but he would not give ear to them.
25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.
26 And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.
26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
27 Then after the book, in which Baruch had put down the words of Jeremiah, had been burned by the king, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
27 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 Take another book and put down in it all the words which were in the first book, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, put into the fire.
28 “Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
29 And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end to every man and beast in it?
29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written therein, saying, “The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal”?’”
30 For this reason the Lord has said of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, He will have no son to take his place on the seat of David: his dead body will be put out to undergo the heat of the day and the cold of the night.
30 Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
31 And I will send punishment on him and on his seed and on his servants for their evil-doing; I will send on them and on the people of Jerusalem and the men of Judah, all the evil which I said against them, but they did not give ear.
31 I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.”’”
32 Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of other words of the same sort.
32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll, 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 many similar words were added to them.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Abdeel
Named as the father of Shelemiah, an officer of Jehoiakim.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:26
Achbor
Named as the father of Elnathan, an official under Jehoiakim.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 26:22; Jeremiah 36:12
Azriel
Named as the father of Seraiah, an officer of Jehoiakim.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:26
Baruch
The scribe to whom Jeremiah dictated the words of the LORD and to whom he gave the deed of the field at Anathoth.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 36:4; Jeremiah 36:14
Cushi
Named as the father of Shelemiah, in the ancestry of Jehudi.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:14
Delaiah
Son of Shemaiah who was among the officials seated in the scribe's chamber when Baruch's scroll was read, and who urged the king not to burn it.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:25
Elishama
The scribe in whose chamber the scroll of Jeremiah was later kept, and one of the officials who heard its words.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:20; Jeremiah 36:21
Elnathan
Son of Achbor whom Jehoiakim sent to Egypt to bring Uriah back, and who was among the officials who heard the scroll.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 26:22; Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:25
Gemariah
Son of Shaphan the scribe, in whose chamber Baruch read Jeremiah's scroll, and one of the officials who heard it.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:10; Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:25
Hananiah
Named as the father of Zedekiah, an official under Jehoiakim.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:12
Jehudi
Son of Nethaniah, sent by the officials to bring Baruch to them, and who read Jeremiah's scroll to the king.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:14; Jeremiah 36:21; Jeremiah 36:23
Jerahmeel
A son of the king whom Jehoiakim commanded, with Seraiah and Shelemiah, to seize Baruch and Jeremiah.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:26
Micaiah
Son of Gemariah who heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll and reported them to the officials.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:11
Nethaniah
Seraiah
Son of Azriel whom Jehoiakim commanded to seize Baruch and Jeremiah, though the LORD hid them.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:26
Shelemiah
Son of Abdeel whom Jehoiakim commanded to seize Baruch and Jeremiah, though the LORD hid them.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:26
Shelemiah
Son of Cushi and father of Nethaniah, named in the ancestry of Jehudi.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:14
Shemaiah
Named as the father of Delaiah, an official under Jehoiakim.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:12
Zedekiah
Son of Hananiah, one of the officials seated in the scribe's chamber when Baruch's scroll was read.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 36:12
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 25:1; Jeremiah 35:1; 2 Chronicles 36:5; Jeremiah 45:1; 2 Kings 24:1–2
- 2 Jeremiah 30:2; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 36:6; Exodus 17:14; Jeremiah 25:3
- 3 Jeremiah 18:8; Acts 3:19; Jeremiah 26:3; Deuteronomy 30:2; Ezekiel 12:3
- 4 Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 36:32; Ezekiel 2:9; Jeremiah 43:3; Jeremiah 45:1–2
- 5 Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 32:2; 2 Corinthians 11:23; Ephesians 6:20; Jeremiah 37:15
- 6 Jeremiah 36:8–9; Jeremiah 22:2; Leviticus 16:29–31; Jeremiah 7:2; Jeremiah 26:2
- 7 Jeremiah 36:3; Lamentations 4:11; Jeremiah 21:5; Hosea 5:15–6:1; 2 Kings 22:17
- 8 Jeremiah 1:17; Philippians 2:19–22; 1 Corinthians 16:10; Nehemiah 8:3; Luke 4:16–30
- 9 2 Chronicles 20:3; Jonah 3:5; Jeremiah 36:22; Esther 4:16; Nehemiah 9:1
- 10 Jeremiah 36:11; Jeremiah 52:25; Jeremiah 26:10; 2 Samuel 8:17; Jeremiah 36:25
- 11 2 Kings 22:12–14; 2 Chronicles 34:20; Jeremiah 36:10; 2 Kings 25:22
- 12 Jeremiah 26:22; 2 Kings 22:12; Jeremiah 36:25; Jeremiah 41:1; 2 Kings 22:14
- 13 2 Kings 22:10; Jonah 3:6; 2 Kings 22:19; 2 Chronicles 34:16–18; 2 Chronicles 34:24
- 14 Jeremiah 36:2; Zephaniah 1:1; Jeremiah 41:16; Ezekiel 2:6–7; Jeremiah 41:18
- 16 Jeremiah 13:18; Amos 7:10–11; Jeremiah 36:24; Acts 24:25–26; Jeremiah 38:1–4
- 17 John 9:15; John 9:26–27; John 9:10–11
- 18 Jeremiah 36:4; Jeremiah 36:2; Proverbs 26:4–5; Jeremiah 43:2–3
- 19 1 Kings 17:3; 1 Kings 18:4; Jeremiah 26:20–24; 1 Kings 18:10; Jeremiah 36:26
- 20 Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:21
- 21 2 Kings 22:10; Ezekiel 2:4–5; 2 Chronicles 34:18; Jeremiah 26:2; Jeremiah 23:28
- 22 Amos 3:15; Jeremiah 36:9; Jeremiah 22:14–16; Jeremiah 3:20
- 23 1 Kings 22:8; 1 Kings 22:27; Proverbs 13:13; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 5:18–19
- 24 Jeremiah 36:16; Psalm 36:1; Isaiah 36:22–37:1; Psalm 64:5; Jonah 3:6
- 25 Jeremiah 36:12; Acts 5:34–39; Genesis 37:22; Genesis 37:26–28; Jeremiah 13:15–17
- 26 1 Kings 19:14; 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 17:3; Psalm 91:1; 1 Kings 19:1–3
- 27 Jeremiah 36:4
- 28 Zechariah 1:5–6; 2 Timothy 2:13; Jeremiah 44:28; Jeremiah 28:13–14; Matthew 24:35
- 29 Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 26:9; Isaiah 29:21; Jeremiah 32:3; Job 15:24
- 30 Jeremiah 22:30; 2 Kings 24:12–15; Genesis 31:40; Jeremiah 22:18–19
- 31 Proverbs 29:1; Leviticus 26:14; Jeremiah 35:17; Jeremiah 19:15; Jeremiah 23:34
- 32 Jeremiah 36:4; Jeremiah 36:18; Exodus 4:15–16; Leviticus 26:24; Leviticus 26:21
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences