Get a scroll and write upon it all the words that I have spoken to you—concerning Israel and Judah and all the nations—from the time I first spoke to you in the days of Josiah to this day.
Perhaps when the House of Judah hear of all the disasters I intend to bring upon them, they will turn back from their wicked ways, and I will pardon their iniquity and their sin.
But you go and read aloud GOD’s words from the scroll that you wrote at my dictation, to all the people in the House of GOD on a fast day; thus you will also be reading them to all the Judeans who come in from the towns.
Perhaps their entreaty will be accepted by GOD, if they turn back from their wicked ways. For great is the anger and wrath with which GOD has threatened this people.”
In the ninth month of the fifth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people coming from Judah proclaimed a fast before GOD in Jerusalem.
It was then that Baruch—in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, near the new gateway of the House of GOD—read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll to all the people in the House of GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקרא
317
ברוך
228
בספר
342
אתדברי
617
ירמיהו
271
בית
412
יהוה
26
בלשכת
752
גמריהו
264
בןשפן
482
הספר
345
בחצר
300
העליון
171
פתח
488
שער
570
ביתיהוה
438
החדש
317
באזני
70
כלהעם
165
Jeremiah 36:11
Gematria: 2483
וישמעמכיהובןגמריהובןשפןאתכלדברייהוהמעלהספר
Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shaphan heard all the words of GOD [read] from the scroll,
and he went down to the king’s palace, to the chamber of the scribe. There he found all the officials in session: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וירד
220
ביתהמלך
507
עללשכת
850
הספר
345
והנהשם
406
כלהשרים
605
יושבים
368
אלישמע
451
הספר
345
ודליהו
61
בןשמעיהו
483
ואלנתן
537
בןעכבור
350
וגמריהו
270
בןשפן
482
וצדקיהו
221
בןחנניהו
181
וכלהשרים
611
Jeremiah 36:13
Gematria: 2860
ויגדלהםמכיהואתכלהדבריםאשרשמעבקראברוךבספרבאזניהעם
And Micaiah told them all that he had heard as Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.
Then all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah son of Shelemiah son of Cushi to say to Baruch, “Take that scroll from which you read to the people, and come along!” And Baruch took the scroll and came to them.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישלחו
360
כלהשרים
605
אלברוך
259
אתיהודי
436
בןנתניהו
573
בןשלמיהו
443
בןכושי
388
לאמר
271
המגלה
83
אשר
501
קראת
701
בה
7
באזני
70
העם
115
קחנה
163
בידך
36
ולך
56
ויקח
124
ברוך
228
בןנריהו
323
אתהמגלה
484
בידו
22
ויבא
19
אליהם
86
Jeremiah 36:15
Gematria: 1811
ויאמרואליושבנאוקראנהבאזנינוויקראברוךבאזניהם
They said, “Sit down and read itbSit down and read it Change of vocalization yields “Read it again”; cf. Targum and Septuagint. to us.” And Baruch read it to them.
And they went to the king in the court, after leaving the scroll in the chamber of the scribe Elishama. And they reported all these matters to the king.
The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll and he fetched it from the chamber of the scribe Elishama. Jehudi read it to the king and to all the officials who were in attendance on the king.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישלח
354
המלך
95
אתיהודי
436
לקחת
538
אתהמגלה
484
ויקחה
129
מלשכת
790
אלישמע
451
הספר
345
ויקראה
322
יהודי
35
באזני
70
המלך
95
ובאזני
76
כלהשרים
605
העמדים
169
מעל
140
המלך
95
Jeremiah 36:22
Gematria: 3542
והמלךיושבביתהחרףבחדשהתשיעיואתהאחלפניומבערת
Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in the winter house, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.
And every time Jehudi read three or four columns, [the king] would cut it up with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the brazier.
The king ordered Jerahmeel, the king’s son, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But GOD hid them.
And concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus said GOD: You burned that scroll, saying, “How dare you write in it that the king of Babylon will come and destroy this land and cause human and animal to cease from it?”
Assuredly, thus said GOD concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah: He shall not have any of his line sitting on the throne of David; and his own corpse shall be left exposed to the heat by day and the cold by night.
And I will punish him and his offspring and his courtiers for their iniquity; I will bring on them and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on all the citizenry of Judah all the disasters of which I have warned them—but they would not listen.
So Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. And at Jeremiah’s dictation, he wrote in it the whole text of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned; and more of the like was added.