Jeremiah 36 | New International Reader’s Version

New International Reader’s Version

Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll

1 A message from the LORD came to Jeremiah. It came in the fourth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah. He was the son of Josiah. The message said, 2 ‘Get a scroll. Write on it all the words I have spoken to you. Write down what I have said about Israel, Judah and all the other nations. Write what I have said to you from the time of King Josiah until now. 3 The people of Judah will hear about all the trouble I plan to bring on them. Maybe then each of them will turn from their evil ways. If they do, I will forgive their sins and the evil things they have done.’ 4 So Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah. Jeremiah told him to write down all the words the LORD had spoken to him. And Baruch wrote them on the scroll. 5 Then Jeremiah said to him, ‘I’m not allowed to go to the LORD’s temple. 6 So you go there. Go on a day when the people are fasting. Read to them from the scroll. Read the words of the LORD you wrote down as I gave them to you. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns. 7 They will hear what the LORD will do to them when his burning anger blazes out against them. Then perhaps they will pray to him. And maybe each of them will turn from their evil ways.’ 8 Baruch, the son of Neriah, did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do. He went to the LORD’s temple. There he read the words of the LORD from the scroll. 9 It was in the fifth year that Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, was king of Judah. It was the ninth month of that year. A time of fasting at the LORD’s temple had been ordered. All the people in Jerusalem were told to take part in it. So were those who had come in from the towns of Judah. 10 Baruch read to all the people who were at the LORD’s temple. He read Jeremiah’s words from the scroll. He was in the room of Gemariah the secretary. It was located in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple. Gemariah was the son of Shaphan. 11 Micaiah was the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan. Micaiah heard Baruch reading all the LORD’s words that were written on the scroll. 12 Then he went down to the secretary’s room in the royal palace. All the officials were sitting there. They included the secretary Elishama and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah. Elnathan, the son of Akbor, was also there. So was Gemariah, the son of Shaphan. Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, was there too. And so were all the other officials. 13 Micaiah told all of them what he had heard. He told them everything Baruch had read to the people from the scroll. 14 All the officials sent Jehudi to speak to Baruch, the son of Neriah. Jehudi was the son of Nethaniah. Nethaniah was the son of Shelemiah. Shelemiah was the son of Cushi. Jehudi said to Baruch, ‘Come. Bring the scroll you have read to the people.’ So Baruch went to them. He carried the scroll with him. 15 The officials said to him, ‘Please sit down. Read the scroll to us.’ So Baruch read it to them. 16 They heard all its words. Then they looked at one another in fear. They said to Baruch, ‘We must report all these words to the king.’ 17 They said to Baruch, ‘Tell us. How did you happen to write all these things? Did Jeremiah tell you to do this?’ 18 ‘Yes’, Baruch replied. ‘He told me to write down all these words. So I wrote them in ink on the scroll.’ 19 Then the officials spoke to Baruch. They said, ‘You and Jeremiah must go and hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.’ 20 The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary. Then they went to the king in the courtyard. They reported everything to him. 21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary. Jehudi read it to the king. All the officials were standing beside the king. So they heard it too. 22 It was the ninth month. The king was sitting in his winter apartment. A fire was burning in the brazier in front of him. 23 Jehudi read three or four sections from the scroll. Then the king cut them off with a secretary’s knife. He threw them into the brazier. He did that until the entire scroll was burned in the fire. 24 The king and some of his attendants heard all these words. But they weren’t afraid. They didn’t tear their clothes. 25 Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll. But he wouldn’t listen to them. 26 Instead, the king commanded three men to arrest Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them. The three men were Jerahmeel, Seraiah and Shelemiah. Jerahmeel was a member of the royal court. Seraiah was the son of Azriel. And Shelemiah was the son of Abdeel. 27 A message from the LORD came to Jeremiah. It came after the king burned the scroll. On the scroll were the words Baruch had written down. Jeremiah had told him to write them. The message said, 28 ‘Get another scroll. Write on it all the words that were on the first one. King Jehoiakim burned that one. 29 Also tell King Jehoiakim, “The LORD says, ‘You burned that scroll. You said to Baruch, “Why did you write that the king of Babylon would certainly come? Why did you write that he would destroy this land? And why did you write that he would remove from it people and animals alike?” ’ 30 So now the LORD has something to say about Jehoiakim, the king of Judah. He says, ‘No one from Jehoiakim’s family line will sit on David’s throne. Jehoiakim’s body will be thrown out. It will lie outside in the heat by day and in the frost at night. 31 I will punish him and his children and his attendants. I will punish them for their sinful ways. I will bring on them all the trouble I said I would. And I will bring it on the people of Jerusalem and Judah. They have not listened to me.’ ” ’ 32 So Jeremiah got another scroll. He gave it to Baruch the secretary. He was the son of Neriah. Jeremiah told Baruch what to write on it. Baruch wrote down all the words that were on the scroll King Jehoiakim had burned in the fire. And many more words were written on it. They were similar to those that had already been written.

Kutsal Kitap Yeni Çeviri

from Turkish Bible Society

Kral Yehoyakim Tomarı Yakıyor

1 Yahuda Kralı Yoşiya oğlu Yehoyakim'in krallığının dördüncü yılında RAB Yeremya'ya şöyle seslendi: 2 ‹‹Bir tomar al, Yoşiya'nın döneminden bu yana İsrail, Yahuda ve öteki uluslarla ilgili sana söylediğim her şeyi yaz. 3 Belki Yahuda halkı başına getirmeyi tasarladığım bütün felaketleri duyar da kötü yolundan döner; ben de suçlarını, günahlarını bağışlarım.›› 4 Yeremya Neriya oğlu Baruk'u çağırıp RAB'bin kendisine söylediği bütün sözleri tomara yazdırdı. 5 Sonra Baruk'a şu buyruğu verdi: ‹‹Ben tutukluyum, RAB'bin Tapınağı'na gidemem. 6 Sen oruç günü RAB'bin Tapınağı'na git. Oradaki halka sana yazdırdığım RAB'bin sözlerini tomardan oku. Yahuda kentlerinden gelen halka da oku. 7 Belki RAB'be yalvarır, kötü yollarından dönerler. Çünkü RAB'bin bu halka karşı sözünü ettiği öfke ve kızgınlığı büyüktür.›› 8 Neriya oğlu Baruk, Peygamber Yeremya'nın buyurduğu her şeyi yaptı. RAB'bin tomarda yazılı sözlerini tapınakta okudu. 9 Yahuda Kralı Yoşiya oğlu Yehoyakim'in krallığının beşinci yılının dokuzuncu ayı, Yeruşalim'de yaşayan bütün halk ve Yahuda kentlerinden Yeruşalim'e gelen herkes için RAB'bin önünde oruç ilan edildi. 10 Şafan oğlu Yazman Gemarya'nın yukarı avluda, tapınağın Yeni Kapısı'nın girişindeki odasında Baruk, Yeremya'nın sözlerini tomardan RAB'bin Tapınağı'ndaki bütün halka okudu. 11 Şafan oğlu Gemarya oğlu Mikaya tomardan okunan RAB'bin sözlerini duyunca, 12 aşağıya inip saraydaki yazman odasına gitti. Bütün önderler orada toplantı halindeydi: Yazman Elişama, Şemaya oğlu Delaya, Akbor oğlu Elnatan, Şafan oğlu Gemarya, Hananya oğlu Sidkiya ve öbürleri. 13 Mikaya Baruk'un halka okuduğu tomardan duyduğu her şeyi onlara iletti. 14 Bunun üzerine bütün önderler Kuşi oğlu Şelemya oğlu Netanya oğlu Yehudi'yi Baruk'a gönderdiler. Yehudi Baruk'a, ‹‹Halka okuduğun tomarı al, gel›› dedi. Neriya oğlu Baruk tomarı alıp yanlarına gitti. 15 Önderler, ‹‹Lütfen otur, bize de oku›› dediler. Baruk da tomarı onlara okudu. 16 Bütün bu sözleri duyar duymaz, korkuyla birbirlerine bakıp Baruk'a, ‹‹Bütün bu sözleri kesinlikle krala bildirmemiz gerek›› dediler. 17 Sonra Baruk'a, ‹‹Söyle bize, bütün bunları nasıl yazdın? Yeremya mı yazdırdı sana?›› diye sordular. 18 Baruk, ‹‹Evet›› diye yanıtladı, ‹‹Bütün bu sözleri o söyledi. Ben de hepsini mürekkeple tomara yazdım.›› 19 Bunun üzerine Baruk'a, ‹‹Git, sen de Yeremya da gizlenin. Nerede olduğunuzu kimse bilmesin›› dediler. 20 Tomarı Yazman Elişama'nın odasında bırakıp avluda bulunan kralın yanına gittiler. Ona duydukları her sözü ilettiler. 21 Kral tomarı alıp getirmesi için Yehudi'yi gönderdi. Yehudi tomarı Yazman Elişama'nın odasından getirdi. Krala ve yanındaki önderlere okudu. 22 Dokuzuncu aydı, kral kışlık sarayındaydı. Önünde mangalda ateş yanıyordu. 23 Yehudi tomardan üç dört sütun okur okumaz kral yazman çakısıyla onları kesip mangaldaki ateşe attı. Tomarın tümü yanıp bitene dek bu işi sürdürdü. 24 Tomardaki sözleri duyan kralla görevlileri ne korktular ne de giysilerini yırttılar. 25 Elnatan, Delaya ve Gemarya tomarı yakmaması için yalvardılarsa da kral onları dinlemedi. 26 Yazman Baruk'u ve Peygamber Yeremya'yı tutuklamaları için oğlu Yerahmeel'e, Azriel oğlu Seraya'ya ve Avdeel oğlu Şelemya'ya buyruk verdi. Oysa RAB onları gizlemişti. 27 Kral, Yeremya'nın Baruk'a yazdırdığı sözleri içeren tomarı yaktıktan sonra, RAB Yeremya'ya şöyle seslendi: 28 ‹‹Başka bir tomar al, Yahuda Kralı Yehoyakim'in yaktığı ilk tomardaki bütün sözleri yazdır. 29 Yahuda Kralı Yehoyakim için de ki, ‹RAB şöyle diyor: Babil Kralı'nın kesinlikle gelip bu ülkeyi viraneye çevireceğini, içindeki insanı da hayvanı da yok edeceğini neden tomara yazdın diye sorup tomarı yaktın. 30 Bu yüzden RAB Yahuda Kralı Yehoyakim için şöyle diyor: Davut'un tahtında oturan kimsesi olmayacak; ölüsü gündüzün sıcağa, gece ayaza bırakılacak. 31 İşledikleri suçlar yüzünden kendisini de çocuklarıyla görevlilerini de cezalandıracağım. Onların, Yeruşalim'de yaşayanların ve Yahuda halkının başına sözünü ettiğim bütün felaketleri getireceğim. Çünkü beni dinlemediler.› ›› 32 Bunun üzerine Yeremya başka bir tomar alıp Neriya oğlu Yazman Baruk'a verdi. Yahuda Kralı Yehoyakim'in ateşe atıp yaktığı tomardaki bütün sözleri Baruk Yeremya'nın ağzından tomara yazdı. Bu sözlere, benzer birçok söz daha eklendi.