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Jeremiah 36:9

in Jeremiah 36

Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.

KJV

And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

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This verse in Jeremiah 36

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
The ninth month answers to our December, and the fast was probably in commemoration of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans in the previous year.

This site's exposition

the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah

on Jeremiah 36:9-10

The fast comes in the ninth month of the fifth year, about a year after the command. Baruch reads from the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan, “in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate,” a public place. Shaphan’s son Ahikam had protected Jeremiah in 26:24.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But some think that the writing of the book fairly over took up so much time that it was another year ere it was perfected; and yet perhaps it might not be past a month or two; he might begin in the latter end of the fourth year and finish it in the beginning of the fifth, for thee ninth month refers to the computation of the year in general, not to the year of that reign.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Great shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those who, though they keep up these forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to the power of it. But what will such hypocritical services avail? Fasting, without reforming and turning away from sin, will never turn away the judgments of God, Jon. iii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

In the ninth month - Answering to a part of our December.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

the new gate That is the Eastern Gate; so did Jonathan translate.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 36:10:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וַיְהִ֣יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בַשָּׁנָ֣הin the year

    vashanahH8141 →877 times

  • הַ֠חֲמִשִׁית<the> fifth

    hachamishitH2549 →45 times

  • לִיהוֹיָקִ֨יםof Jehoiakim

    lihoyakimH3079 →37 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יֹאשִׁיָּ֤הוּJosiah

    yoshiyahuH2977 →53 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָה֙Judah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁin the month

    bachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הַתְּשִׁעִ֔י<the> ninth

    hateshiiH8671 →18 times

  • קָרְא֨וּthey proclaimed

    kareuH7121 →733 times

  • צ֜וֹםa fast

    tzomH6685 →

  • לִפְנֵ֧י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • בִּירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֗םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַבָּאִ֛יםwho were coming

    habaimH935 →2568 times

  • מֵעָרֵ֥יfrom [the] cities of

    meareiH5892 →1090 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃in Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

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

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.6 worksJeremiah 36:22Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.3 worksEsther 4:16“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”3 worksJonah 3:5And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.3 worksZechariah 7:5–6“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?2 worksJoel 2:12–17“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”2 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
Leviticus 23:27“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.2 worksNehemiah 9:1On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.2 worksJeremiah 36:1In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:2 worksIsaiah 58:1–3“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.2 worksZechariah 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”2 worksJoel 1:13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.2 worksJeremiah 35:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:2 worksJoel 2:15Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.2 works

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

    Esther 4:16

    “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast…

    it leads to

    • Joel 2:12–17

      “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Acts 20:24

      But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good…

    • 2 Chronicles 20:3

      Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

    • Luke 9:24

      For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

    • Genesis 18:19

      For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 20:3

    Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

    it leads to

    • Daniel 9:3

      So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joel 1:14

      Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Jonah 3:5

    And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

    it leads to

    • Luke 11:32

      The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

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
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 36 →

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

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