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Jeremiah 36:25

in Jeremiah 36

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.

KJV

Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.

This verse in Jeremiah 36

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The "nevertheless" aggravates the king's sin; though God would have drawn him back through their intercession, he persisted: judicial blindness and reprobation!

This site's exposition

the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments

on Jeremiah 36:24-26

The king and his servants “did not become frightened or tear their garments,” though the officials had turned in fear. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urge the king not to burn the scroll, and he orders Baruch and Jeremiah seized. Verse 26 ends, “But the LORD had hidden them.”

This site's exposition

Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king

Elnathan's plea stands out. Barnes recalls that this same man had led the party that brought the prophet Urijah back from Egypt to his death in Jeremiah 26:22. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the king's refusal of three of his own officials as a mark of hardening.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

That Jehoiakim, when he had thus in effect burnt God's warrant by which he was arrested, as it were in a way of revenge, now that he thought he had got the better, signed a warrant for the apprehending of Jeremiah and Baruch, God's ministers (

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Nevertheless, Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah - Three of the princes wished to save the roll, and entreated the king that it might not be burnt. They would have saved it out of the fire, but the king would not permit it to be done.
It is remarkable to find Elnathan interceding for Jeremiah after the office he had discharged toward Urijah Jer 26:22.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • וְגַם֩and also

    vegamH1571 →769 times

  • אֶלְנָתָ֨ןElnathan

    ʾelnatanH494 →7 times

  • וּדְלָיָ֤הוּand Delaiah

    udelayahuH1806 →

  • וּגְמַרְיָ֙הוּ֙and Gemariah

    ugemaryahuH1587 →5 times

  • הִפְגִּ֣עוּthey had made entreaty

    hifgiuH6293 →46 times

  • בַמֶּ֔לֶךְwith the king

    vamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • לְבִלְתִּ֥יto not

    leviltiH1115 →112 times

  • שְׂרֹ֖ףto burn

    serofH8313 →117 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמְּגִלָּ֑הthe scroll

    hamegilahH4039 →21 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • שָׁמַ֖עhe listened

    shama'H8085 →1159 times

  • אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃to them

    ʾaleihemH413 →5510 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 36:12

    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…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 26:22

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

    • 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:

    • 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…

    • Jeremiah 28:1–17

      In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to…

    • 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…

  • Through

    Genesis 37:22

    “Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and…

    it leads to

    • Acts 12:1

      About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.

    • Genesis 22:12

      “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

    • Genesis 42:22

      And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.