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The divided kingdom

Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah's scroll

606 BCUssher date

Jeremiah 36

Jeremiah dictated his prophecies to Baruch, who read them in the temple; King Jehoiakim cut the scroll apart column by column and burned it, and Jeremiah dictated it all again.

When 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.

Jeremiah 36:23 (World English Bible)

The king's officials were alarmed by the message, but Jehoiakim sat by his fire and burned it piece by piece, refusing to listen. God told Jeremiah to write it again, with more added.

Places

JerusalemNew Gate

Dating notes

Written in Jehoiakim's fourth year and read in his fifth (Jeremiah 36:1, 9). Ussher, 606 BC.

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