Jeremiah 36:21

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 36:21

21. sent Jehudi—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. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 36:21

The king proceeded to send Jehudi to get the scroll from Elishama in the scribe’s room. When Jehudi returned with it, he read it to the king and his officials. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 36:21-26

Its burning 36:21-26 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 36:1-32

Events Connected with the Collection of Jeremiah’s Prophecies into a Volume (4th and 5th years of Jehoiakim)The prophecies concerning Israel and Judah are now ended, and we have here the record of the embodying in a permanent form by Jeremiah of the substance of these prophecies. For further remarks see Intro.2. A roll of a book] Several skins were stitched together and attached to a roller of wood. The writing was arranged in columns parallel to the roller, so that as the parchment was... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 36:21

(21) So the king sent Jehudi . . .—The prudence ci the counsellors was foiled by the king’s impatience. He was not satisfied with hearing a general report. He would have the words themselves. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 36:1-32

Jehoiakim's Penknife Jeremiah 36:22-25 Jehoiakim sends for the roll; it is brought; he commands it to be read. But when only two or three columns have been read to him, he takes it from the reader, and deliberately cuts it into pieces with his penknife, and throws it into the fire, so that all is destroyed. And that was the answer of Jehoiakim to the Lord and His prophet. I. This was an act of peculiar and intolerable wickedness, burdened with every aggravation possible. 1. It was committed in... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 36:1-32

CHAPTER IIITHE ROLLJeremiah 36:1-32"Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee."- Jeremiah 36:2THE incidents which form so large a proportion of the contents of our book do not make up a connected narrative; they are merely a series of detached pictures: we can only conjecture the doings and experiences of Jeremiah during the intervals. Chapter 26 leaves him still exposed to the persistent hostility of the priests and prophets, who had apparently... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 36:1-32

CHAPTER 36 The Indestructibility of the Word of God 1. The writing of the roll (Jeremiah 36:1-4 ) 2. The reading of the roll (Jeremiah 36:4-20 ) 3. The king cuts and burns the roll (Jeremiah 36:21-26 ) 4. The indestructibility of the Word of God (Jeremiah 36:27-32 ) Jeremiah 36:1-4 . Once more we are taken back to the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Jeremiah is now commanded to commit all the words Jehovah had spoken to him to writing. It was for the purpose that the people might hear of all... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 36:1-32

MORE MESSAGES FOR JEHOIAKIM This lesson opens with the story of the Rechabites (chap. 35). Jeremiah 35:6-7 show the origin of their name and their “order,” to quote a modern term. The principles of the latter were (1) abstinence form strong drink; (2) voluntary poverty; and (3) a nomadic life. Jeremiah 35:11 gives the explanation of their presence in Jerusalem. Jeremiah 35:12-17 furnish the cause for Jeremiah’s action in the premises, who is to use these followers of Rechab as a kind of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 36:8-26

It should seem, , that Baruch made great use of this roll, and read in it to the people continually! For it was in the fourth year of Jehoiakim that he wrote it, and began to read it; and here we find him on the fast day in the fifth year still reading in it. And we have a very circumstantial account of the proceedings at this fast. I think, the fear and the terror of their looks are striking proofs of the alarm generally felt in their consciences. The hiding also both of Jeremiah and Baruch... read more

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