Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Jeremiah Chapter 1 to 52)

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Jeremiah 36:27 (NLT) - 27 After the king had burned the scroll on which Baruch had written Jeremiah’s words, the Lord gave Jeremiah another message. He said,
 
Jeremiah 36:28 (NLT) - 28 “Get another scroll, and write everything again just as you did on the scroll King Jehoiakim burned.
 
Jeremiah 36:29 (NLT) - 29 Then say to the king, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned the scroll because it said the king of Babylon would destroy this land and empty it of people and animals.
 
Jeremiah 36:30 (NLT) - 30 Now this is what the Lord says about King Jehoiakim of Judah: He will have no heirs to sit on the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to lie unburied—exposed to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
 
Jeremiah 36:31 (NLT) - 31 I will punish him and his family and his attendants for their sins. I will pour out on them and on all the people of Jerusalem and Judah all the disasters I promised, for they would not listen to my warnings.’”
 
Jeremiah 36:32 (NLT) - 32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and dictated again to his secretary, Baruch. He wrote everything that had been on the scroll King Jehoiakim had burned in the fire. Only this time he added much more!
 
Jeremiah 37:1 (NLT) - 1 Zedekiah son of Josiah succeeded Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim as the king of Judah. He was appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 37:2 (NLT) - 2 But neither King Zedekiah nor his attendants nor the people who were left in the land listened to what the Lord said through Jeremiah.
 
Jeremiah 37:3 (NLT) - 3 Nevertheless, King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, son of Maaseiah, to ask Jeremiah, “Please pray to the Lord our God for us.”
 
Jeremiah 37:5 (NLT) - 5 At this time the army of Pharaoh Hophra of Egypt appeared at the southern border of Judah. When the Babylonian army heard about it, they withdrew from their siege of Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 37:7 (NLT)

7 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The king of Judah sent you to ask me what is going to happen. Tell him, ‘Pharaoh’s army is about to return to Egypt, though he came here to help you.
 
Jeremiah 37:9 (NLT) - 9 “This is what the Lord says: Do not fool yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians are gone for good. They aren’t!
 
Jeremiah 37:10 (NLT) - 10 Even if you were to destroy the entire Babylonian army, leaving only a handful of wounded survivors, they would still stagger from their tents and burn this city to the ground!”
 
Jeremiah 37:12 (NLT)
Jeremiah started to leave the city on his way to the territory of Benjamin, to claim his share to the property among his relatives there.
 
Jeremiah 37:13 (NLT)
But as he was walking through the Benjamin Gate, a sentry arrested him and said, "You are defecting to the Babylonians!" The sentry making the arrest was Irijah son of Shelemiah, grandson of Hananiah.
 
Jeremiah 37:14 (NLT)
"That's not true! Jeremiah protested. "I had no intention of doing any such tthing." But Irijah wouldn't listen, and he took Jeremiah before the officials.
 
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