Jeremiah 36:2 Cross References - Thomson

² Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words which I have spoken to thee against Jerusalem and against Juda and against all the nations from the day I first spoke to thee; from the days of Josias king of Juda even to this day.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this in a book to keep it in remembrance; and rehearse it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will entirely blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

²⁴ Now when Moses had made an end of writing all the words of this law in a book, even to the close,

¹⁸ And though the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his presence, and there was none left but only the tribe of Juda, ¹⁹ yet even then Juda did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God; but walked in the ordinances which Israel had made, and rejected the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore the Lord was angry with the whole race of Israel and shook them off, and delivered them into the hands of spoilers who ransacked them until he cast them out of his sight.

² and there hath been found in the city, in the royal palace, a roll, in which is written this memorandum,

³⁵ who could have heard me with patience?] And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord

⁷ Then I said, Behold I come; [in the volume of a book it is written respecting me]

¹ Again the Lord said to me, "Take thee a strip of a large new roll and write thereon with a man's pen "Speed quickly to the plunder of the spoil", for it is at hand.

⁸ Now therefore sit down and write these things in a tablet and make a book that they may be for the appointed time; even for the time to come. ⁹ Because this is a rebellious people; lying children, who would not hear the law of God,

² as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign ³ and came to him in the days of Joakim son of Josias king of Juda even to the eleventh year of Zedekias son of Josias king of Juda, even to the capture of Jerusalem, in the fifth month

⁵ "Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee, and before thou wast born I hallowed thee. I have appointed thee a prophet for nations."

¹⁰ Behold I have this day set thee over nations and over kingdoms to root out and demolish and destroy; and to rebuild and plant.

⁴ Hear a word of the Lord, house of Jacob and every family of the house of Israel.

³ and retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: yet with the face of a harlot and behaving indecently before them all, ⁴ hast thou not returned home and called me father and the guide of thy youth? ⁵ Will anger continue forever? Shall it be kept up to the last? Behold thou hast spoken and done these evil things: yet thou hast prevailed. ⁶ Again the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast thou seen what the house of Israel have done to me? They have gone up upon every high mountain and under every shady tree and have there committed whoredom; ⁷ and after she had committed all these acts of whoredom I said, Return to me; but she returned not. And the treacherous Juda saw this treachery; ⁸ and I saw that when for all the whoredoms which Israel had committed and in which she had been caught, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce in her hands, the treacherous Juda was not terrified, but went and committed the like herself. ⁹ Indeed the other's fornication was as nothing; she committed adultery with stocks and stones, ¹⁰ and for all this the treacherous Juda turned not to me with her whole heart but only feignedly.

¹³ Among the prophets of Samaria I saw indeed unlawful doings; they prophesied in the name of Baal and led my people Israel astray: ¹⁴ but among the prophets of Jerusalem I saw horrible things; some committing adultery, and some walking in lies, and some strengthening the hands of the multitude, that none might turn from his evil way. To me they are all become like Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof like Gomorra:

³ [J] From the thirteenth year of Josias son of Amos king of Juda even to this day, for three and twenty years I have spoken to you rising early and speaking:

⁹ behold I am sending, and I will take a family from the north and bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations around it. And I will lay them waste and make them a desolation and an object of pity and an everlasting reproach. ¹⁰ And I will destroy from among them the sound of joy and the sound of gladness; the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; the odour of myrrh and the light of the lamp. ¹¹ And the whole country shall be a desolation. And they shall be slaves among the nations seventy years. ¹² And when the seventy years are compleated I will execute vengeance on that nation, and make them an everlasting desolation. ¹³ I will indeed bring against that land all these words of mine which I have spoken against it; all the things which are written in this book which Jeremias prophesied against the nations, ¹⁴ [Omitted] ¹⁵ in the manner the Lord, the God of Israel said, "Take this cup of wine; this strong wine from my hand, and thou shalt make all the nations, to which I send thee, drink it. ¹⁶ And they shall drink and vomit and rave, because of the sword which I send among them. ¹⁷ So I took the cup out of the hand of the Lord and made all the nations drink to which the Lord sent me, ¹⁸ namely Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his chiefs, to make them a desolation and a waste and an object of pity; ¹⁹ also Pharao king of Egypt and his servants and his nobles and all his people; ²⁰ and all the mixed people; and all the kings of the Philistines, [namely Ascalon and Gaza and Akkaron and the remnant of Azotus; ²¹ and Idumea and Moab and the children of Ammon; ²² and the kings of Tyre and the kings of Sidon; and the kings on the border of the sea; ²³ and Daidan and Thaiman and Ros, and all that had their foreheads shaven; ²⁴ and all the mixed people who dwell in the desert; ²⁵ and all the kings of Ailam and all the kings of the Persians ²⁶ and all the kings north of the sun, far and near, every one adjoining his brother, even all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. ²⁷ And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty, Drink and be drunk, and you shall vomit, and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I send among you. ²⁸ And if they refuse to take the cup out of thy hand to drink, then thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, You shall drink it: ²⁹ for in the city which is called by my name I am beginning to inflict calamity and with purification you shall not be purified; for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth.

² Thus spake the Lord the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words which I have delivered to thee in a book:

³⁰ Because the children of Israel and the children of Juda have done nothing but evil before mine eyes from their youth; ³¹ because this very city hath been an object of my wrath and of my resentment from the day it was built to this day; ³² let him remove it from my presence on account of all the iniquities of the children of Israel and Juda, which they and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets, the men of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have done to provoke me. ³³ For they have turned to me their back and not their face. Though I taught them betimes, they would no more receive instruction, ³⁴ but have set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, and polluted it with their impurities; ³⁵ and have built up the altars to Baal which were in the valley of the son of Ennom to offer up their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; a thing which I never commanded them, nor did it ever come into my mind that they should commit such an abomination to cause Juda to transgress heinously.

⁶ therefore thou shalt read from this roll in the hearing of the people in the house of the Lord on the fast day, even in the hearing: of all Juda who come from their cities thou shalt read to them.

²³ So as Judin read three or four folds, he cut them off with the secretary's knife and4 threw them into the fire in the grate, till the whole roll was consumed in the fire.

²⁹ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Thou hast burned that roll, saying, "Why hast thou written therein and said the king of Babylon shall surely come and lay waste this land, so that neither man nor beast shall be left therein;"

¹ The word which Jeremias the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he was writing the words in the book, from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim son of Josias king of Juda.

¹ Concerning the Philistines, ² Thus saith the Lord, Behold waters are coming from the north, and they shall become an overwhelming flood, and shall overwhelm the land and the fulness thereof; the cities and them who dwell therein: and the men shall utter the scream of distress, and all the inhabitants of the land, a doleful cry. ³ At the sound of his impetuous onset; at the armour of his infantry; at the rushing of his chariots; the rumbling of his wheels; fathers looked not back on their children, by reason of the feebleness of their hands. ⁴ In the day which is coming to destroy all the Philistines I will destroy also Tyre and Sidon and all the residue of their help. [p] Because the Lord will utterly destroy the remnants in the isles, ⁵ baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon is overthrown and the remnant of Enakim. ⁶ [c] How long wilt thou hew down, sword of the Lord? How long will it be ere thou wilt rest? Return into thy scabbard, rest and be removed. ⁷ [p] How can it rest when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon and the cities on the sea coast and to be lifted up against them whom remain?

⁶⁰ When Jeremias bad written in a book all the evils which were to come upon Babylon, even all the words above written against Babylon,

⁹ Then I looked, and lo! a hand stretched out towards me and in it a roll of a book

¹ And he said to me, Son of man eat this roll and go and speak to the children of Israel. ² And when he had opened my mouth and put the roll into it, he said to me, Son of man, ³ Let thy mouth eat and thy belly be filled with this roll which is given thee. So I ate it, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey.

¹² I will prescribe for him a multitude. Though his rites were devised for other purposes, the altars were objects of love.

² And the Lord answered and said, [J] Write a vision: write it distinctly in a book that the reader may trace these things; ³ for the vision is for a time yet to come. But it will spring up at last and will not be vain. Though he may tarry, wait for him; for he will assuredly come and will not fail.

¹ Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a flying sickle. ² And he said to me, What dost thou see? And I said, I see a flying sickle twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad. ³ Whereupon he said to me, This is the curse which is going forth over the face of the whole earth. Since every thief on the one hand is to be punished with death, and every false swearer on the other hand is to be punished; ⁴ therefore I will bring it out saith the Lord Almighty; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who sweareth by my name to a falsehood; and it shall lodge in his house, and destroy it with the timber and the stones thereof.

¹ And I saw in the right hand of him who was sitting on the throne a volume written within and on the back sealed with seven seals. ² And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the volume, even to loosen the seals of it." ³ And no one in the heaven, nor on the earth, nor beneath the earth was able to open the volume and look into it. ⁴ And when I was weeping much because no one was found worthy to open and read the volume; even to look into it, ⁵ one of the elders saith to me, "weep not; behold! the lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the volume and to loose the seven seals thereof." ⁶ Then I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four animate beings and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as if it had been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. ⁷ And he went and took the book out of the right hand of him who was sitting on the throne. ⁸ And when he took the book, the four animate beings and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, having, every of them, kitharas and golden cups full of incense which is the prayers of the saints. ⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou hast been slain and hast purchased us for God with thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;