Jeremiah 36:27-32
Human attempts to destroy God’s word cannot stop its proclamation or prevent the fulfillment of His judgment.
27 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 “Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’
30 Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
31 I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.” ’ ”
32 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.
Human attempts to destroy God’s word cannot stop its proclamation or prevent the fulfillment of His judgment.
To record the LORD’s response to Jehoiakim’s destruction of the prophetic scroll and the reaffirmation of God’s word through the rewriting of the prophecy with additional judgment against the king.
This section concludes the scroll narrative of Jeremiah 36. Following the king’s destruction of the scroll, God commands Jeremiah to rewrite the message and add further prophetic warnings against the king.
After Jehoiakim burns the prophetic scroll, God commands Jeremiah to dictate the message again and expand it with further judgment.
The Scroll Written, Read, Cut, Burned, and Written Again
Jehoiakim can cut and burn the scroll, but he cannot destroy the word of the LORD; the rejected word is rewritten, expanded, and fulfilled in judgment.