11.03.2015 Old Testament: Jer 36.20–25

To read the Bible in a year, read Jeremiah 36–37 on November 3, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

The Lord had Jeremiah dictate what amounts to the first thirty-five chapters of the Book of Jeremiah. Then his amanuensis, Baruch, was to read the scroll to the king of Judah, but that did not go well,

And they went to the king, into the court; but they stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing of the king. So the king sent Jehudi to bring the scroll, and he took it from Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king. Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning on the hearth before him. And it happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the king cut it with the scribe’s knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words. Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the king not to burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them (Jeremiah 36.20–25). 

Can you imagine doing such a thing? Yet, when people do not read the Scriptures, the end result is the same, someone is disregarding the word of God.

You read the Scriptures. Do not give up, but continue reading, and you shall acquire the wisdom of God.