Jeremiah 36:20-26
1599 Geneva Bible
20 ¶ And they went in to the king to the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the Chancellor, and told the King all the words, that he might hear.
21 So the King sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he took it out of Elishama the Chancellor’s chamber, and Jehudi read it in the audience of the King, and in the audience of all the princes, which stood beside the King.
22 Now the King sat in the winter house, in the [a]ninth month, and there was a fire burning before him.
23 And when Jehudi had read three or four sides, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire, that was on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent [b]their garments, neither the King, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25 Nevertheless, Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah had besought the King, that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
26 But the King commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the Scribe, and Jeremiah the Prophet, but the Lord [c]hid them.
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- Jeremiah 36:22 Which contained part of November, and part of December.
- Jeremiah 36:24 Showing that the wicked instead of repenting when they hear God’s judgments, grow into further malice against him and his word.
- Jeremiah 36:26 Thus we see the continual care, that God hath ever over his to preserve them from the rage of the wicked.
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