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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 36:2 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 36:2 |
Strong Concordance |
Take [03947] thee a roll [04039] of a book [05612], and write [03789] therein all the words [01697] that I have spoken [01696] unto thee against Israel [03478], and against Judah [03063], and against all the nations [01471], from the day [03117] I spake [01696] unto thee, from the days [03117] of Josiah [02977], even unto this day [03117]. |
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King James |
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
roll of a book--a book formed of prepared skins made into a roll. Compare "volume of the book," that is, the Pentateuch (Psa 40:7). It does not follow that his prophecies were not before committed to writing; what is implied is, they were now written together in one volume, so as to be read continuously to the Jews in the temple.
against . . . nations-- (Jer 25:15, &c.).
from . . . days of Josiah-- (Jer 25:3). From Josiah's thirteenth year (Jer 1:2). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
A roll of a book - A parchment-scroll, consisting of several skins sewn together, and cut of an even breadth, with a piece of wood at one end (or, in case of larger volumes, at both ends) on which to roll them up.
Write therein all the words ... - The phrase means that the roll was to contain "all the counsel of God" Act 20:27 upon the special point mentioned in Jer 36:3; and that the prophet was not to keep anything back. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The word of the Lord to Jeremiah was to this effect: "Take thee a book-roll, and write on it (אליה for עליה) all the words that I have spoken unto thee concerning Israel and Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah till this day. Jer 36:3. Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I meditate doing to them, that they may return every one from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." ישׁמעוּ here means, to hear correctly and lay to heart; cf. Jer 26:3. Hitzig views the command as meaning, not that Jeremiah is now for the first time to write down his addresses (which would be an impossibility for the most faithful memory), but that he is merely to write them down together in one book, out of the several scattered leaves and scraps. Graf has already refuted this view, though more fully than was necessary. It is not a copying, word for word, of every separate address that is meant, but merely a writing down of the essential contents of all his oral discourses. This is quite clear, not merely from what is stated in Jer 36:3 as the object of this command, but also from the character of these collected addresses, as they are preserved to us. That the expression "all the words" is not to be understood in the most rigid sense, follows from the very fact that, when Jeremiah anew wrote down his prophecies, Jer 36:32, he further added "many similar words" to what had been contained in the first book-roll, which was burned by Jehoiakim. But Jeremiah might perhaps be able to retain in his memory the substance of all the addresses he had delivered during the twenty-three years, since all of them treated of the same subjects - reproof of prevailing sins, threat of punishment, and promises. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
A roll - Parchments, which anciently were their books. All the words - All the revelations he had from God for twenty - two years last past. God would have them recorded, that there might be a memorial of them, that so the truth of them might appear, when God should bring them to pass; the time of which now drew near. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Take thee a roll of a book - Take a sufficient quantity of parchment; cut and stitch it together, that it may make a roll on which to write the words that I have already spoken, that they may serve for a testimony to future generations. The Jewish rolls, several of which now lie before me, were made of vellum, or of sheep-skins dressed in the half-tanned or Basil manner. These were cut into certain lengths, and those parts were all stitched together, and rolled upon a roller. The matter was written on these skins in columns or pages. Sometimes two rollers are used, that as the matter is read from the roll in the left hand, the reader may coil it on the roller in his right. In this form the Pentateuch is written which is read in the synagogues. |
2 To whom the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] came in the days [03117] of Josiah [02977] the son [01121] of Amon [0526] king [04428] of Judah [03063], in the thirteenth [07969] [06240] year [08141] of his reign [04427].
3 From the thirteenth [07969] [06240] year [08141] of Josiah [02977] the son [01121] of Amon [0526] king [04428] of Judah [03063], even unto this day [03117], that is the three [07969] and twentieth [06242] year [08141], the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] hath come unto me, and I have spoken [01696] unto you, rising early [07925] and speaking [01696]; but ye have not hearkened [08085].
15 For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] unto me; Take [03947] the wine [03196] cup [03563] of this fury [02534] at my hand [03027], and cause all the nations [01471], to whom I send [07971] thee, to drink [08248] it.
7 Then said [0559] I, Lo, I come [0935]: in the volume [04039] of the book [05612] it is written [03789] of me,
3 It may be that the house [01004] of Judah [03063] will hear [08085] all the evil [07451] which I purpose [02803] to do [06213] unto them; that they may return [07725] every man [0376] from his evil [07451] way [01870]; that I may forgive [05545] their iniquity [05771] and their sin [02403].
27 For [1063] I have [5288] not [3756] [3361] shunned [5288] to declare [312] unto you [5213] all [3956] the counsel [1012] of God [2316].
32 Then took [03947] Jeremiah [03414] another [0312] roll [04039], and gave [05414] it to Baruch [01263] the scribe [05608], the son [01121] of Neriah [05374]; who wrote [03789] therein from the mouth [06310] of Jeremiah [03414] all the words [01697] of the book [05612] which Jehoiakim [03079] king [04428] of Judah [03063] had burned [08313] in the fire [0784]: and there were added [03254] besides unto them many [07227] like [01992] words [01697].
3 It may be that the house [01004] of Judah [03063] will hear [08085] all the evil [07451] which I purpose [02803] to do [06213] unto them; that they may return [07725] every man [0376] from his evil [07451] way [01870]; that I may forgive [05545] their iniquity [05771] and their sin [02403].
3 If so be they will hearken [08085], and turn [07725] every man [0376] from his evil [07451] way [01870], that I may repent [05162] me of the evil [07451], which I purpose [02803] to do [06213] unto them because [06440] of the evil [07455] of their doings [04611].
3 It may be that the house [01004] of Judah [03063] will hear [08085] all the evil [07451] which I purpose [02803] to do [06213] unto them; that they may return [07725] every man [0376] from his evil [07451] way [01870]; that I may forgive [05545] their iniquity [05771] and their sin [02403].