Jeremiah 36:28
Did he not send for this purpose? for in the course of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build ye houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
27And now wherefore have ye reviled together Jeremias of Anathoth, who prophesied to you?
29And Sophonias read the book in the ears of Jeremias.
Cross References
Job 23:13And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed a thing and done it.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 36:21-32
Jeremiah's Roll Consumed. ( b. c. 607.) 20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. 21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. 22 Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before… Read the whole commentary →