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Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 36:1-32

Jehoiakim burn’s Jeremiah’s scroll (36:1-32)God commanded Jeremiah to write down all the prophecies he had given during the previous twenty years and announce them again to Judah. Perhaps even yet the nation would repent and so escape God’s judgment (36:1-3).Over the next year Jeremiah wrote down the messages, using Baruch as his scribe. Since Jeremiah was forbidden to enter the temple (see 20:1-2; 26:7-9), he arranged for Baruch to go on his behalf and read the scroll to the people (4-7).... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 36:29

thou shalt say. Not verbally to Jehoiakim, but in the other scroll. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 36:30

of = concerning. none to sit, &c. = none sitting, &c. Hebrew. yashab, implying permanence. His son Jehoiachin reigned only three months, and then only on sufferance (2 Kings 24:6-8 ). See note on Jeremiah 22:30 . See App-99 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 36:31

punish him = visit upon him. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:34 ). App-92 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 36:29

29. say to Jehoiakim—not in person, as Jeremiah was "hidden" ( :-), but by the written word of prophecy. saying, Why—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. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 36:30

30. He shall have none to sit upon the throne—fulfilled (2 Kings 24:8; 2 Kings 25:1-30). He had successors, but not directly of his posterity, except his son Jeconiah, 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 (2 Kings 24:8- :). dead body . . . cast out— (Jeremiah 22:18; Jeremiah 22:19). day . . . heat . . . night . . . frost—There are often these variations of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 36:29

He was also to send a message from the Lord to the king. Jehoiakim had burned the first scroll because it contained prophecies predicting that Nebuchadnezzar would come and destroy the land and its inhabitants. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 36:30

Because Jehoiakim had done this, he would have no descendant to follow him on Judah’s throne. His son Jehoiachin did reign for three months after his father, but Jehoiachin assumed the throne without authorization, and Nebuchadnezzar quickly deported him to Babylon. Furthermore, Jehoiakim would suffer an ignominious death without burial (cf. Jeremiah 22:18-19). He who threw (Heb. hishlik) the scroll into the fire would be thrown (Heb. hushlak) out into the elements. Josiah, in contrast,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 36:31

The Lord would also punish him and his descendants, and his servants, with all the judgments that Jeremiah had predicted for the people of Jerusalem and Judah. He would send them because they had refused to listen to the Lord. read more

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