Neriah

I will forgive all the evil things they have done."

So Jeremiah called a man named Baruch son of Neriah.

Jeremiah spoke the messages the Lord had given him.

While he spoke, Baruch wrote the messages on the scroll.

Perhaps they will ask the Lord to help them.

Perhaps each person will stop doing bad things.

The Lord has announced that he is very angry with them." So Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do.

Baruch read aloud from the scroll that had the Lord's messages written on it.

If they do, I will forgive their sins and the wicked things they have done.

So Jeremiah summoned Baruch, son of Neriah.

Then Baruch wrote down in a scroll all the Lord's words that he had told to Jeremiah as they came from his mouth.

Jeremiah chapter 45 and chapter 46.

Baruch is rebuked but also comforted.

The prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch, son of Neriah, while he was writing down in a scroll the words that Jeremiah spoke to him.

This happened in the fourth year that Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was ruling over Judah.

Jeremiah said, The Lord God of Israel has a message for you, Baruch.

Perhaps they will bring their petition before the Lord, and will each turn from their wicked ways, for the anger and wrath pronounced against this people by the Lord are great.

Baruch, son of Neriah, did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do.

At the Lord's temple he read the words of the Lord from the scroll.

In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, a time of fasting before the Lord was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.

Elishamah, the secretary, Deliah, son of Shemaiah, Elnathan, son of Akbo, Gemariah, son of Shaphan, Zedekiah, son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll, all the officials sent Jehudi, son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, Bring the scroll from which you have read to the people, and come.

So Baruch, son of Neriah, went to them with the scroll in his hand.

They said to him, Sit down, please, and read it to us.

I will bring on them and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on the people of Judah all the disasters with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen.

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary, Baruch son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah's dictation all the words of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire, and many similar words were added to them.

Zedekiah, son of Josiah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, succeeded Kenaiah, son of Jehoiakim.

But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the Lord that he spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

In the fourth year of King Jehoiakim, son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.

It may be that when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters that I intend to do to them, all of them may turn from their evil ways so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." Then Jeremiah called Baruch, son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at Jeremiah's dictation all the words that the Lord had spoken to him.

And Jeremiah ordered Baruch saying, "I am prevented from entering the house of the Lord, so you go and on a fast day in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, you shall read the words of the Lord from the scroll that you have written in my direction.

You shall read them also in the hearing of all the people of Judah who come up from their towns.

It may be that their plea will come before the Lord and that all of them will turn from their evil ways, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against His people." And Baruch, son of Neriah, did all that the Prophet Jeremiah ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

In the fifth year of King Jehoiakim, son of Josiah of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

Then in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, the secretary, which was in the upper court at the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house.

So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and the custom, and one which was open.

And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel, my uncle's son, in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed to the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison." So this is like an official contract that's taking place in front of witnesses.

You have one scroll that's left open, one scroll that's closed.

You have Jeremiah's own seal that would be put onto it, his bulla, or h- the clay pot would be his bulla, his seal impressions, very similar to seal impressions that we find in Jerusalem, and he's purchasing some land here.

Jeremiah chapter 45, verse 1.

It says, The word that Jeremiah the prophet speak unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written...

These words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah in the fourth year.

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