Jeremiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Jeremiah 43 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
1 When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to thee against Jerusalem, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to thee, from the days of Josiah king of Judah, even to this day.
2 then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’
3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and [so] I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.
3 but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon.”
4 So Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and he wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.
4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am in prison; I cannot enter into the house of the Lord:
5 But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah—
6 so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.
6 the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
7 Peradventure their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way: for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which he has pronounced against this people.
7 They came into the land of Egypt, for they didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice; and they came to Tahpanhes.
8 And Baruch did according to all that Jeremiah commanded him—reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.
8 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9 And it came to pass in the eighth year of King Jehoiakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Judah, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.
9 “Take great stones in your hand and hide them in mortar in the brick work which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.
10 And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the house of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entrance of the new gate of the house of the Lord, and in the ears of all the people.
10 Tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
11 And Micaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan heard all the words of the Lord, out of the book.
11 He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.
12 And he went down to the king’s house, into the house of the scribe: and, behold, there were sitting there all the princes, 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 princes.
12 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.
13 And Micaiah reported to them all the words which he had heard Baruch reading in the ears of the people.
13 He will also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh that is in the land of Egypt; and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’”
14 And all the princes sent to Baruch son of Neriah Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, Take in thy hand the roll in which thou readest in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch took the roll, and went down to them.
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15 And they said to him, Read [it] again in our ears. And Baruch read [it].
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16 And it came to pass, when they [had] heard all the words, [that] they took counsel each with his neighbor, and said, Let us by all means tell the king all these words.
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17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Where didst thou write all these words?
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18 And Baruch said, Jeremiah told me from his [own] mouth all these words, and I wrote them in a book.
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19 And they said to Baruch, Go, and hide, thou and Jeremiah; let no man know where ye [are].
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20 And they went in to the king into the court, and gave the roll [to one] to keep in the house of Elishama; and they told the king all these words.
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21 And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of the house of Elishama: and Jehudi read in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood round the king.
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22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house: and [there was] a fire on the hearth before him.
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23 And it came to pass when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast [them] into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
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24 And the king and his servants that heard all these words sought not [the Lord], and rent not their garments.
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25 But Elnathan and Gemariah suggested to the king that he should burn the roll.
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26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, to take Baruch and Jeremiah: but they were hidden.
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27 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the roll, [even] all the words which Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
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28 Again take thou another roll, and write all the words that were on the roll, which King Jehoiakim has burned.
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29 And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man and cattle shall fail from off it?
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30 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall not have [a man] to sit on the throne of David: and his carcass shall be cast forth in the heat by day, and in the frost by night.
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31 And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants: and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Judah, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they hearkened not.
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32 And Baruch took another roll, and wrote upon it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim had burned: and there were yet more words added to it like the former.
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Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 26:8; Jeremiah 51:63; Jeremiah 42:22; Jeremiah 1:7; Jeremiah 42:3–5
- 2 Isaiah 7:9; 2 Chronicles 36:13; Jeremiah 42:1; Proverbs 16:18–19; Jeremiah 43:1
- 3 Jeremiah 38:4; Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 43:6; Jeremiah 45:1–3; Jeremiah 36:4
- 4 Jeremiah 42:5–6; Jeremiah 44:5; Psalm 37:3; 2 Chronicles 25:16; Ecclesiastes 9:16
- 5 Jeremiah 40:11–12; Jeremiah 41:15–16; 1 Samuel 26:19
- 6 Jeremiah 39:10; Jeremiah 40:7; Ecclesiastes 9:1–2; Jeremiah 41:10; Lamentations 3:1
- 7 Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 2:16; Isaiah 30:4; Jeremiah 46:14; Ezekiel 30:18
- 8 2 Timothy 2:9; Psalm 139:7; Jeremiah 2:16
- 9 Jeremiah 19:1–15; Jeremiah 18:2–12; Jeremiah 51:63–64; Exodus 1:14; Ezekiel 4:1–5:17
- 10 Isaiah 44:28–45:1; Ezekiel 29:18–20; Jeremiah 1:15; Psalm 18:11; Psalm 27:5
- 11 Jeremiah 44:13; Jeremiah 15:2; Ezekiel 29:19–20; Zechariah 11:9; Jeremiah 25:19
- 12 Ezekiel 30:13; Isaiah 19:1; Psalm 109:18–19; Isaiah 49:18; Jeremiah 48:7
- 13 Isaiah 19:18
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