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<p id="Chapter36" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 36
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<p id="Jer36_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,'1-32');">Jer 36:1-32</a>. BARUCH WRITES, AND READS PUBLICLY JEREMIAH'S PROPHECIES COLLECTED IN A VOLUME. THE ROLL IS BURNT BY JEHOIAKIM, AND WRITTEN AGAIN BY BARUCH AT JEREMIAH'S DICTATION.
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<p><b>1. fourth year</b>—The command to write the roll was given in the fourth year, but it was not read publicly till the fifth year. As Isaiah subjoined to his predictions a history of events confirming his prophecies (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',36,'1-22');">Isa 36:1-22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',37,'1-38');">37:1-38</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',38,'1-22');">38:1-22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',39,'1-8');">39:1-8</a>), so Jeremiah also in the thirty-seventh through forty-third chapters; but he prefaces his history with the narrative of an incident that occurred some time ago, showing that he, not only by word, but in writing, and that twice, had testified all that he about to state as having subsequently come to pass [GROTIUS]. At the end of Jehoiakim's third year, Nebuchadnezzar enrolled an army against Jerusalem and took it in the end of the fifth or beginning of the sixth year, carrying away captive Jehoiakim, Daniel, etc. Jehoiakim returned the same year, and for three years was tributary: then he withheld tribute. Nebuchadnezzar returned and took Jerusalem, and carried off Jehoiakim, who died on the road. This harmonizes this chapter with <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',24,'1-20');">2Ki 24:1-20</a>. See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer022.html#Jer22_19">Jer 22:19</a>.
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<p id="Jer36_2"><b>2. roll of a book</b>—a book formed of prepared skins made into a roll. Compare "volume of the book," that is, the Pentateuch (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',40,7);">Psa 40:7</a>). It does not follow that his prophecies were not before committed to writing; what is implied is, they were now written together in <i>one</i> volume, so as to be read continuously to the Jews in the temple.
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<br><br><b>against...nations</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',25,15);">Jer 25:15</a>, etc.).
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<br><br><b>from...days of Josiah</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',25,3);">Jer 25:3</a>). From Josiah's thirteenth year (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',1,2);">Jer 1:2</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_3"><b>3. hear</b>—consider seriously.
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<br><br><b>return...from...evil way</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jon',3,8);">Jon 3:8</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_4"><b>4. all...words of...Lord</b>—God specially suggesting what might otherwise have escaped his memory, and directing the choice of words, as well as the substance (<a onclick="return mV('Jhn',14,26);">Jhn 14:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',16,13);">16:13</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_5"><b>5. I am shut up</b>—not in prison, for there is no account of his imprisonment under Jehoiakim, and <a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,19,26);">Jer 36:19, 26</a> are inconsistent with it: but, "<i>I am prevented,</i>" namely, by some hindrance; or, through fear of the king, to whose anger Baruch was less exposed, as not being the author of the prophecy.
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<p id="Jer36_6"><b>6. go</b>—on the following year (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,9);">Jer 36:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>fasting day</b>—(See <a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,9);">Jer 36:9</a>). An extraordinary fast, in the <i>ninth</i> month (whereas the fast on the great day of atonement was on the tenth day of the <i>seventh</i> month, <a onclick="return mV('Lev',16,29);">Lev 16:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lev',23,'27-32');">23:27-32</a>), appointed to avert the impending calamity, when it was feared Nebuchadnezzar, having in the year before (that is, the fourth of Jehoiakim), smitten Pharaoh-necho at Carchemish, would attack Judea, as the ally of Egypt (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,34,35);">2Ki 23:34-35</a>). The fast was likely to be an occasion on which Jeremiah would find the Jews more softened, as well as a larger number of them met together.
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<p id="Jer36_7"><b>7. present...supplication</b>—literally, "supplication shall fall"; alluding to the <i>prostrate attitude</i> of the supplicants (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',9,25);">Deu 9:25</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',26,39);">Mat 26:39</a>), as petitioners fall at the feet of a king in the East. So <i>Hebrew,</i> <a onclick="return mV('Jer',38,26);">Jer 38:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,18);">Dan 9:18</a>, <i>Margin.</i>
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<p id="Jer36_9"><b>9. they proclaimed...to all the people...to all,</b> etc.—rather, "all the people...all the people proclaimed a fast" [MICHAELIS]. The chiefs appointed the fast by the wish of the people. In either version the ungodly king had no share in appointing the fast.
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<p id="Jer36_10"><b>10. chamber</b>—Baruch read from the window or balcony of the chamber looking into the court where the people were assembled. However, some of the chambers were large enough to contain a considerable number (<a onclick="return mV('Neh',13,5);">Neh 13:5</a>).
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<br><br><b>Gemariah</b>—distinct from the Gemariah, son of Hilkiah, in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',29,3);">Jer 29:3</a>.
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<br><br><b>Shaphan</b>—the same person as in <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',22,3);">2Ki 22:3</a>.
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<br><br><b>scribe</b>—secretary of state, or he who presided over the public records.
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<br><br><b>higher court</b>—that of the priests, the court of the people being lower (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',4,9);">2Ch 4:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>new gate</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',26,10);">Jer 26:10</a>). The east gate.
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<p id="Jer36_12"><b>12. scribe's chamber</b>—an apartment in the palace occupied by the secretary of state.
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<br><br><b>princes</b>—holding a counsel of state at the time.
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<br><br><b>Elnathan</b>—who had already been an instrument of evil in Jehoiakim's hand (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',26,22,23);">Jer 26:22-23</a>).
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<br><br><b>Hananiah</b>—the false prophet (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',28,'10-17');">Jer 28:10-17</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_14"><b>14. Jehudi</b>—of a good family, as appears from his pedigree being given so fully, but in a subordinate position.
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<br><br><b>come</b>—Instead of requiring Baruch to <i>come</i> to them, they ought to have <i>gone</i> to the temple, and there professed their penitence. But pride forbade it [CALVIN].
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<p id="Jer36_16"><b>16. afraid, both one and other</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> "fear-stricken," they turned to one another (compare <a onclick="return mV('Gen',42,28);">Gen 42:28</a>). This showed, on their part, hesitancy, and some degree of fear of God, but not enough to make them willing to sacrifice the favor of an earthly king. We will surely tell the king—not the language of threatening but implying that the matter is of such moment that the king ought to be made acquainted with it, so as to seek some remedy against the divine anger.
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<p id="Jer36_17"><b>17.</b> What they wished to know was, whether what Baruch had read to them was written by him from memory after hearing Jeremiah repeating his prophecies continuously, or accurately from the prophet's own dictation.
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<p id="Jer36_18"><b>18. his mouth</b>—Baruch replies it was by the <i>oral</i> dictation of the prophet; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,2);">Jer 36:2</a> accords with this view, rather than with the notion that Jeremiah repeated his prophecies from manuscripts.
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<br><br><b>ink</b>—his specification of the "ink" implies: I added nothing save the hand, pen, and ink.
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<p id="Jer36_19"><b>19.</b> Showing that they were not altogether without better feelings (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,16,25);">Jer 36:16, 25</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_20"><b>20. chamber</b>—There were chambers in the king's palace round the court or great hall, as in the temple (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,10);">Jer 36:10</a>). The roll was "laid up" there for safekeeping, with other public records.
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<p id="Jer36_21"><b>21. sent Jehudi</b>—Note how unbelievers flee from God, and yet seek Him through some kind of involuntary impulse [CALVIN]. Jehudi seems to have been the king's ready tool for evil.
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<p id="Jer36_22"><b>22. winter house</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',3,15);">Amo 3:15</a>).
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<br><br><b>ninth month</b>—namely, of the religious year, that is, November or December.
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<br><br><b>fire on...hearth</b>—rather, <i>the stove</i> was burning before him. In the East neither chimneys nor ovens are used, but, in cold weather, a brazen vessel containing burning charcoal; when the wood has burned to embers, a cover is placed over the pot to make it retain the heat.
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<p id="Jer36_23"><b>23. three or four leaves</b>—not distinct leaves as in a book, but the consecutive spaces on the long roll in the shape of <i>doors</i> (whence the <i>Hebrew</i> name is derived), into which the writing is divided: as the books of Moses in the synagogue in the present day are written in a long parchment rolled round a stick, the writing divided into columns, like pages.
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<br><br><b>pen-knife</b>—the writer's knife with which the reed, used as a pen, was mended. "He" refers to the king (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,22);">Jer 36:22</a>). As often as Jehudi read three or four columns, the king cut asunder the part of the roll read; and so he treated the whole, until all the parts read consecutively were cut and burnt; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,24);">Jer 36:24</a>, "<i>all</i> these words," implies that the <i>whole</i> volume was read through, not merely the first three or four columns (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',22,8);">1Ki 22:8</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_24"><b>24.</b> The king and his "servants" were more hardened than the "princes" and councillors (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer036.html#Jer36_12">Jer 36:12</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer036.html#Jer36_14">Jer 36:14</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer036.html#Jer36_16">Jer 36:16</a>). Contrast the humble fear exhibited by Josiah at the reading of the law (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',22,11);">2Ki 22:11</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_25"><b>25.</b> (See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer036.html#Jer36_16">Jer 36:16</a>). The "nevertheless" aggravates the king's sin; though God would have drawn him back through their intercession, he persisted: judicial blindness and reprobation!
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<p id="Jer36_26"><b>26. Hammelech</b>—not as <i>Margin,</i> "of the king." Jehoiakim at this time (the fifth year of his reign) had no grown-up son: Jeconiah, his successor, was then a boy of eleven (compare <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,36);">2Ki 23:36</a>, with <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',24,8);">2Ki 24:8</a>).
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<br><br><b>hid them</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',31,20);">Psa 31:20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',83,3);">83:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,20);">Isa 26:20</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_27"><b>27. roll, and...words</b>—that is, the roll of words.
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<p id="Jer36_28"><b>28. all the former words</b>—It is in vain that the ungodly resist the power of Jehovah: not one of His words shall fall to the ground (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',5,18);">Mat 5:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',9,5);">Act 9:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',9,5);">5:39</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_29"><b>29. say to Jehoiakim</b>—not in person, as Jeremiah was "hidden" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,26);">Jer 36:26</a>), but by the written word of prophecy.
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<br><br><b>saying, Why</b>—This is what the king had desired to be said to Jeremiah if he should be found; kings often dislike the truth to be told them.
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<p id="Jer36_30"><b>30. He shall have none to sit upon the throne</b>—fulfilled (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',24,8);">2Ki 24:8</a>, etc. <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',25,'1-30');">2Ki 25:1-30</a>). He had <i>successors,</i> but not directly of his posterity, <i>except his son Jeconiah,</i> whose three months' reign is counted as nothing. Zedekiah was not the son, but the uncle of Jeconiah, and was raised to the throne in contempt of him and his father Jehoiakim (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,30);">Jer 22:30</a>).
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<br><br><b>dead body...cast out</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,18,19);">Jer 22:18-19</a>).
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<br><br><b>day...heat...night...frost</b>—There are often these variations of temperature in the East between night and day (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',31,40);">Gen 31:40</a>).
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<p id="Jer36_32"><b>32. added besides...many like words</b>—Sinners gain nothing but additional punishment by setting aside the word of Jehovah. The law was similarly rewritten after the first tables had been broken owing to Israel's idolatry (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',32,19);">Exd 32:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',34,1);">34:1</a>).
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