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**The Thirty-Second Prophecy of Jeremiah** (see book comments for Jeremiah).
**the fourth year of Jehoiakim.** This was after Nebuchadnezzar had left Jerusalem with his band of young captives, including Daniel. See App-86 . The city had become quieted down again.
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .

**roll** = a writing scroll. Hebrew. *megillah.* Occurs twenty-one times (fourteen times in this chapter. [Psalms 40:7](../../../kjv/psalms/40/7) . [Ezekiel 2:9](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/9) ; [Ezekiel 3:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/3/1) , [Ezekiel 3:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/3/2) , [Ezekiel 3:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/3/3) .[Zechariah 5:1](../../../kjv/zechariah/5/1) , [Zechariah 5:2](../../../kjv/zechariah/5/2) ). The name given to the five books called the *megilloth* (Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther).
**words.** Plural Compare "word" (singular) ([Jeremiah 36:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/1) ).
**Israel.** These words were now to be *written* because Israel had been already in dispersion 114 years, and could not be *spoken,* as they were when Judah alone was concerned. Compare [Jeremiah 25:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/25/2) .
**from the days of Josiah.** See [Jeremiah 1:1-3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/1-3) . Not only what is recorded in [Jeremiah 25](../../../kjv/jeremiah/25) , but what Jehovah had spoken to him for the past twenty-three years.

**evil** = calamity. Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .
**every man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .
**iniquity.** Hebrew. *'avon.* sin. Hebrew. *chata* App-44 .

**Baruch** = Blessed. The first mention of him chronologically. Other references to him in [Jeremiah 32:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/12) ; [Jeremiah 43:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/3) , [Jeremiah 43:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/6) ; [Jeremiah 45:1-5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/45/1-5) . He was brother to Seraiah. Compare [Jeremiah 32:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/12) with [Jeremiah 51:59](../../../kjv/jeremiah/51/59) .

**shut up.** Not in prison (for Compare [Jeremiah 36:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/19) ), but in hiding, or from some unexplained reason.

**the fasting day** = a fast day. Being in the ninth month ([Jeremiah 36:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/9) ), it was not that prescribed in the Law, which was in the seventh month ([Leviticus 16:29](../../../kjv/leviticus/16/29) ; [Leviticus 23:27](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/27) ).

**the fifth year.** The reading was deferred for some months.
**ninth month.** Our December. See App-51 .
**they proclaimed, &c.** = all the People of Jerusalem, and all the People who were coming in and out of the cities of Jerusalem, had proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.

**Gemariah.** He was brother of Ahikam ([Jeremiah 26:24](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/24) ), and not the Gemariah of [Jeremiah 29:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/29/3) , who was Hilkiah's son.
**Shaphan.** See note on [2 Kings 22:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/3) .
**the scribe:** i.e. Shaphan (not Gemariah), who was the scribe in Josiah's days. See [2 Kings 22:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/3) , [2 Kings 22:8](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/8) , 2Ki 22:9 , [2 Kings 22:10](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/10) , [2 Kings 22:12](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/12) . At the time of this history Elishama was the scribe (unless there were more than one). See verses: [Jeremiah 36:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/12) , [Jeremiah 36:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/20) , [Jeremiah 36:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/21) .

**of** = from.

**went down.** Compare [Jeremiah 22:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/22/1) .
**Elnathan.** The king's emissary against Urijah ([Jeremiah 26:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/22) ).

**the** = in the.

**Sit down now.** Compare "stood" ([Jeremiah 36:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/21) ). Showing that these princes were favourable to Jeremiah.

**the words.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "these words".
**We will surely tell.** Showing their earnestness and sincerity in the matter.

**man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .

**Stood.** See note on [Jeremiah 36:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/15) .

**on the hearth** = in the brasier: i.e. the vessel into which the burning charcoal was put from the hearth in houses of the better sort.

**leaves** = columns.
**he:** i.e. the king.
**cut it** = cut it up into fragments.
**penknife** = a scribe *'* s knife. The words of Jehovah are cut up to-day, not with a scribe's knife, but with scribe's pens in the hands of the modern critics. Yet they are "not afraid".

**not afraid.** The courtiers were less open to holy fear than the People were. See note on [Jeremiah 36:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/9) . Contrast Jehoiakim's father, king Josiah ([2 Kings 22:11](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/11) ). Contrast also the sentence pronounced on them ([2 Kings 22:18-20](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/18-20) with [Jeremiah 36:30](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/30) , below on "him").

**Nevertheless** = Moreover.
**made intercession.** Showing that Elnathan was less hostile than we might perhaps have concluded from [Jeremiah 26:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/22) and [2 Kings 24:8](../../../kjv/2-kings/24/8) .

**Hammelech** = the king. Compare [Jeremiah 38:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/38/6) . 1Ki 22:26 . [2 Kings 11:1](../../../kjv/2-kings/11/1) , [2 Kings 11:2](../../../kjv/2-kings/11/2) .[Zephaniah 1:8](../../../kjv/zephaniah/1/8) .

**The Thirty-Third Prophecy of Jeremiah** (see book comments for Jeremiah).
**came.** The word of the LORD was "not bound". Compare [2 Timothy 2:9](../../../kjv/2-timothy/2/9) .
**the roll, and the words.** Note the Figure of speech *Hendiadys* = "the roll, yea, the very words of Jehovah written therein".

**another roll.** See the Structure, (p. 1069). We are not told what became of this, so it may have got, later, into the hands of Nehemiah, when he visited the Temple ruins.

**thou shalt say.** Not verbally to Jehoiakim, but in the other scroll.

**of** = concerning.
**none to sit, &c.** = none sitting, &c. Hebrew. *yashab,* implying permanence. His son Jehoiachin reigned only three months, and then only on sufferance ([2 Kings 24:6-8](../../../kjv/2-kings/24/6-8) ). See note on [Jeremiah 22:30](../../../kjv/jeremiah/22/30) . See App-99 .

**punish him** = visit upon him. Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 32:34](../../../kjv/exodus/32/34) ). App-92 .

**like words** = like unto them. They are preserved to us in this book to a large extent. The history in [Jeremiah 37](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37) and [Jeremiah 38](../../../kjv/jeremiah/38) reverts to the last two years of Zedekiah's reign, and the actual siege of Jerusalem. It is a new and independent section. See Structure, above.

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