Nevi'im
Yirmeyahu36
Jeremiah · Chapter 36
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
that this word came unto Yirmeyahu from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), saying,
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Yisra'el, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even into this day.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Then Yirmeyahu called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Yirmeyahu all the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
And Yirmeyahu commanded Baruch, saying, I
am shut up; I cannot go into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH):
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in the ears of the people in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
It may be they will present their supplication before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and will return every one from his evil way: for great
is the anger and the fury that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath pronounced against this people.
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Yirmeyahu the navi commanded him, reading in the book the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S house.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month,
that they proclaimed a fast before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to all the people in Yerushalayim, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Yerushalayim.
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Yirmeyahu in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S house, in the ears of all the people.
When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
Then he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there,
even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read
it in their ears.
Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote
them with ink in the book.
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Yirmeyahu; and let no man know where ye be.
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.
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.
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
And it came to pass,
that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast
it into the fire that
was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that
was on the hearth.
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,
neither
the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Yirmeyahu the navi: but 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hid them.
Then the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) came to Yirmeyahu, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Yirmeyahu, saying,
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim the king of Judah, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Bavel shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of Dawid: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Then took Yirmeyahu another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Yirmeyahu all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Nevi'im
Yirmeyahu37
Jeremiah · Chapter 37
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Bavel made king in the land of Judah.
But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which he spake by the navi Yirmeyahu.
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the kohen to the navi Yirmeyahu, saying, Pray now unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim for us.
Now Yirmeyahu came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
Then Pharaoh’s army was come forth out of Mitsrayim: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Yerushalayim heard tidings of them, they departed from Yerushalayim.
Then came the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) unto the navi Yirmeyahu, saying,
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), the Elohim of Yisra'el; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Mitsrayim into their own land.
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained
but wounded men among them,
yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Yerushalayim for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
Then Yirmeyahu went forth out of Yerushalayim to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward
was there, whose name
was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Yirmeyahu the navi, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Then said Yirmeyahu,
It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Yirmeyahu, and brought him to the princes.
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Yirmeyahu, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Yonatan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
When Yirmeyahu was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Yirmeyahu had remained there many days;
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there
any word from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)? And Yirmeyahu said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Bavel.
Moreover Yirmeyahu said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Where
are now your nevi'im which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Bavel shall not come against you, nor against this land?
Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Yonatan the scribe, lest I die there.
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Yirmeyahu into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Yirmeyahu remained in the court of the prison.
Nevi'im
Yirmeyahu38
Jeremiah · Chapter 38
Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Yirmeyahu had spoken unto all the people, saying,
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Bavel’s army, which shall take it.
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king
is not
he that can do
any thing against you.
Then took they Yirmeyahu, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that
was in the court of the prison: and they let down Yirmeyahu with cords. And in the dungeon
there was no water, but mire: so Yirmeyahu sunk in the mire.
Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu the navi, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for
there is no more bread in the city.
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Yirmeyahu the navi out of the dungeon, before he die.
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Yirmeyahu.
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Yirmeyahu, Put now
these
old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Yirmeyahu did so.
So they drew up Yirmeyahu with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Yirmeyahu remained in the court of the prison.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Yirmeyahu the navi unto him into the third entry that
is in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and the king said unto Yirmeyahu, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
Then Yirmeyahu said unto Zedekiah, If I declare
it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Yirmeyahu, saying,
As
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) liveth, that made us this nephesh, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
Then said Yirmeyahu unto Zedekiah, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), the Elohim of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra'el; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Bavel’s princes, then thy nephesh shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Bavel’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
And Zedekiah the king said unto Yirmeyahu, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
But Yirmeyahu said, They shall not deliver
thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy nephesh shall live.
But if thou refuse to go forth, this
is the word that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath shewed me:
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house
shall be brought forth to the king of Bavel’s princes, and those
women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire,
and they are turned away back.
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Bavel: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
Then said Zedekiah unto Yirmeyahu, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Yonatan’s house, to die there.
Then came all the princes unto Yirmeyahu, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
So Yirmeyahu abode in the court of the prison until the day that Yerushalayim was taken: and he was
there when Yerushalayim was taken.