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Jeremiah 36:12

in Jeremiah 36

he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, to wit, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

KJV

Then he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

This verse in Jeremiah 36

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
The scribe’s chamber - The chancery in which the king’s business was conducted. Probably Elishama was one of the “principal scribes of the host” Jer 52:25, i. e., the secretary of state for war. The business which had brought together “all the princes” would have reference to the Chaldaean war.

This site's exposition

Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan

on Jeremiah 36:11-13

Michaiah, grandson of the Shaphan whose family ran through Josiah's reform, hears the reading and moves at once, going down to the scribe's chamber in the king's house where the princes are already sitting. He reports the whole content rather than a summary, all the words that he had heard, and the princes' response is immediate concern rather than dismissal. Gill notes the Shaphan family's recurring role across the book, three generations of one household turning up at every hinge point of Jeremiah's story, Ahikam protecting him in chapter 26, Gemariah lending his chamber here, Gedaliah governing after the fall in chapter 40.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Then he went down into the king's house,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We are willing to hope that it was not with a bad design, to bring Jeremiah into trouble for his preaching, but with a good design, to bring the princes into trouble for their sins, that Michaiah informed the princes of what Baruch had read; for his father Gemariah so far countenanced Baruch as to lend him his chamber to read out of.

The words behind it

27 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֤רֶדand he went down

    vaiyeredH3381381 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H10042046 times

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • לִשְׁכַּ֣ת[the] room of

    lishkatH395747 times

  • הַסֹּפֵ֔רthe scribe

    hasoferH5608159 times

  • וְהִ֨נֵּה־and there!

    vehineh-H2009843 times

  • שָׁ֔םthere

    shamH8033834 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הַשָּׂרִ֖יםthe officials

    hasarimH8269421 times

  • יֽוֹשְׁבִ֑ים[were] sitting

    yoshevimH34271079 times

  • אֱלִישָׁמָ֣עElishama

    ʾelishama'H47617 times

  • הַסֹּפֵ֡רthe scribe

    hasoferH5608159 times

  • וּדְלָיָ֣הוּand Delaiah

    udelayahuH1806

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    venosh-H11214930 times

  • שְׁ֠מַעְיָהוּShemaiah

    shema'yahuH809841 times

  • וְאֶלְנָתָ֨ןand Elnathan

    veelnatanH4947 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • עַכְבּ֜וֹרAchbor

    akhborH5907

  • וּגְמַרְיָ֧הוּand Gemariah

    ugemaryahuH15875 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • שָׁפָ֛ןShaphan

    shafanH822734 times

  • וְצִדְקִיָּ֥הוּand Zedekiah

    vetzidkiyahuH666763 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • חֲנַנְיָ֖הוּHananiah

    chananyahuH260829 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH36055413 times

  • הַשָּׂרִֽים׃the officials

    hasarimH8269421 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 41:1

    In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 40:8

      they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their…

    • Jeremiah 40:6

      So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

    • Psalms 41:9

      Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

  • Through

    2 Kings 22:12

    and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 26:24

      Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 36:25

    Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 26:22

      Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor along with some other men.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Acts 5:34–39

      But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 26:22

    Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor along with some other men.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 22:12

      and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:

    • 2 Kings 22:14

      So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived…

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Baruch Writes Jeremiah's Prophecies — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Baruch Writes Jeremiah's Prophecies — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.