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Jeremiah
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In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, See also: Jeremiah 25:1Jeremiah 45:12 Kings 24:1-2“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day. See also: Jeremiah 30:2Jeremiah 25:3Jeremiah 36:6It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.” See also: Jeremiah 18:8Acts 3:19Deuteronomy 30:2Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the LORD’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. See also: Jeremiah 32:12Jeremiah 36:32Ezekiel 2:9Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into the LORD’s house. See also: Jeremiah 32:2Jeremiah 33:12 Corinthians 11:23Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the LORD’s words, in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. See also: Jeremiah 36:8-9Leviticus 16:29-31Jeremiah 26:2It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will each return from his evil way; for the LORD has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.” See also: Jeremiah 36:3Hosea 5:152 Kings 22:17Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the LORD’s words in the LORD’s house. See also: Jeremiah 1:17Matthew 16:24Nehemiah 8:3Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before the LORD. See also: 2 Chronicles 20:3Jonah 3:5Jeremiah 36:22Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in the LORD’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in the ears of all the people. See also: Jeremiah 36:11Jeremiah 52:25Jeremiah 26:10When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the LORD’s words, See also: 2 Chronicles 34:202 Kings 25:22Jeremiah 36:10he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. See also: Jeremiah 26:222 Kings 22:12Jeremiah 36:25Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. See also: 2 Kings 22:102 Chronicles 34:242 Chronicles 34:16-18Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them. See also: Jeremiah 36:2Jeremiah 41:162 Kings 25:23They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing. Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.” See also: Jeremiah 13:18Amos 7:10-11Jeremiah 36:24They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?” See also: John 9:15John 9:10-11John 9:26-27Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.” See also: Jeremiah 36:4Jeremiah 36:2Jeremiah 43:2-3Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.” See also: 1 Kings 17:3Jeremiah 26:20-241 Kings 18:4They went in to the king into the court, but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king. See also: Jeremiah 36:12Jeremiah 36:21So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king. See also: 2 Kings 22:102 Chronicles 34:18Ezekiel 2:4-5Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him. See also: Amos 3:15Jeremiah 3:20Jeremiah 36:9When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. See also: 1 Kings 22:8Proverbs 19:211 Kings 22:27The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments. See also: Jeremiah 36:16Psalms 36:11 Kings 21:27Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them. See also: Genesis 37:22Jeremiah 36:12Acts 5:34-39The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them. See also: 1 Kings 19:14Psalms 91:11 Kings 17:3Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, See also: Jeremiah 36:4“Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. See also: Zechariah 1:5-6Job 23:13Jeremiah 44:28Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘The LORD says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written therein, saying, “The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal”?’” See also: Jeremiah 26:9Isaiah 30:10Isaiah 29:21Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. See also: Jeremiah 22:302 Kings 24:12-15Genesis 31:40I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.”’” See also: Proverbs 29:1Jeremiah 35:17Jeremiah 19:15Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them. See also: Jeremiah 36:4Jeremiah 36:18Exodus 4:15-16
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 36:1
Ver. 1. Fourth, towards the conclusion, after the siege was raised. v. 6. 9.
↑ 1Jeremiah 36:2
Ver. 2. Write. He had already prophesied 22 years. Now he was more frequently ordered to write. C. --- He executed the order by the hand of Baruch. v. 4.
↑ 2Jeremiah 36:3
Ver. 3. If. This indicates free-will. H. --- God makes this last effort, that the hearing of so many separate prophecies together might make a deeper impression.
↑ 3Jeremiah 36:4
Ver. 4. Book. This was afterwards burnt. What he wrote a second time has not come down to us, in the same order. Jeremias made us of his memory, which was directed by the Holy Spirit. C.
↑ 4Jeremiah 36:5
Ver. 5. Shut up. Not that the prophet was now in prison; for the contrary appears from v. 19. but that he kept himself shut up, by reason of the persecutions he had lately met with. See C. xxvi.
Ch. --- If he had been confined, as Grotius asserts, the king would easily have found him. C. ---
He and Baruch retired to some secret place, as most priests (W.) did formerly in England, (H.) that they might better exercise their functions than they could do in the hands of the persecutors.
W.
↑ 5Jeremiah 36:6
Ver. 6. Read. This may sometimes have as good an effect as preaching without a book. H. ---
Fasting day of expiation, (Usher, A. 3398) or rather on (H.) the day prescribed in the 9th month.
v. 9. Lyran. T.
↑ 6Jeremiah 36:7
Ver. 7. They. Lit. "their supplication may fall prostrate before," &c. H. --- It is personified. So Homer represents (C.) "supplications," as daughters of Jupiter, lame, and with eyes averted, (Il.
ix.) to shew how we ought to pray. Jeremias finds means to instruct the people: the word of God is not bound. 2 Tim. ii. 9. C. --- As many refused to hear his discourses, God ordered him to write what might be a perpetual warning and reproach, or testimony against them. W.
↑ 7Jeremiah 36:9
Ver. 9. Fast. Probably on account of the catastrophe the second year. Dan. i. 2.
Many such were afterwards appointed. Zac. vii. 3. and viii. 19. All came to Jerusalem on such occasions.
↑ 9Jeremiah 36:10
Ver. 10. Gate, on the east, (2 Par. xx. 5.) leading to the court of the priests. C.
↑ 10Jeremiah 36:18
Ver. 18. Reading. No study was requisite. H. --- Ink. It formerly resembled that used by printers, (C.) being composed of soot and gum. Vitruv. vii. 10.
↑ 18Jeremiah 36:19
Ver. 19. Are. Thus they provide for the safety of the prophets, and perform their duty to the king.
↑ 19Jeremiah 36:21
Ver. 21. Read it. This was the third time. It was in vain afterwards to destroy the book.
↑ 21Jeremiah 36:22
Ver. 22. Winter-house. He was very magnificent, and had other apartments for summer. Though the climate was warm, fires would be useful in November. ---
Hearth. There was no chimney used, and the smoke went out by the door, or by holes at the top of the room, as we see in some old monasteries. C. ---
Charcoal was probably used. Bar. vi. 42.
↑ 22Jeremiah 36:23
Ver. 23. Pages. Perhaps what was written on so many skins, (H.) or sheets of paper, pasted together, and rolled up; or there might be some marks to shew the different subjects, like the sections used in the synagogue, (C.) or our chapters; though we are assured that all was formerly written without any separation even of letters. Prot. have "leaves." H. --- Heb. "doors." C. The secretary cut and burnt the leaves by the king's order. v. 25. W.
↑ 23Jeremiah 36:24
Ver. 24. Afraid. They saw all without any concern, not believing that God spoke to them. They did not imitate Josias. 2 Par. xxxiv. 19.
↑ 24Jeremiah 36:26
Ver. 26. Hid them, and prevented any one from betraying them. C. --- He did not remove them to a place different from what they had chosen by his direction.
W.
↑ 26Jeremiah 36:30
Ver. 30. None, &c. Because his son, Joachin or Jechonias, within three months after the death of his father, was carried away to Babylon, so that his reign is not worthy to be taken notice of. Ch.
Theodoret. W. --- He was subject to the Chaldees; his uncle took his place.
Joakim had the burial of an ass. C. xii. 18. C. --- None of the following princes enjoyed the glory or power of the ancient king. S. Tho. p. 3. qu. 31. a. 2. W.
↑ 30Jeremiah 36:32
Ver. 32. Before. We cannot tell what. C. --- Prot. "many like words." H.
↑ 32License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses