Jeremiah 36:2

“Take a scroll for yourself and write on it all the words that I have told you concerning Israel and Judah, and every nation. Do this for everything I have told from the days of Josiah until this very day.

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In The King James Version

Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even into this day.

In Context

1It came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, and he said,

3Perhaps the people of Judah will listen to all the disasters that I intend to bring on them. Perhaps everyone will turn away from his wicked way, so I can forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:24It happened that when Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book,

Ezra 6:2In the fortified city of Ecbatana in Media a scroll was found; this was its record:

Psalms 40:7Then said I, “See, I have come; 1 it is written about me in the scroll of the document. 1

Isaiah 30:8Now go, write it in their presence on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, 1 that it may be preserved for the time to come as a testimony. 1

Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I chose you; 1 before you came out from the womb I set you apart; I made you a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 2:4Hear the word of Yahweh, house of Jacob, all you clans of the house of Israel. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 36:2-9

The Roll Written by Baruch. ( b. c. 607.) 1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that… Read the whole commentary →

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