Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 36:9
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.
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.
Verse Jeremiah 36:9. _IN THE NINTH MONTH_] Answering to a part of our _December_....
CHAPTER 36 The Indestructibility of the Word of God _ 1. The writing of the roll (Jeremiah 36:1) _ 2. The reading of the roll (Jeremiah 36:4) 3. The king cuts and burns the roll (Jeremiah 36
JEREMIAH 36. THE WRITING OF THE ROLL. This chapter narrates how the oral prophecies of Jeremiah were first put into writing (604 B.C.). The account is obviously important for the criticism of this boo...
THE FIFTH YEAR. The reading was deferred for some months. NINTH MONTH. Our December. See App-51. THEY PROCLAIMED, &C.. all the People of Jerusalem, and all the People who were coming in and out of t...
_in the ninth month_ afterwards called Chisleu, our December (see Jeremiah 36:22), not therefore the annual solemnity of the seventh month, the only stated fast of the Law (Leviticus 16:29; Leviticus...
See introd. summary to the chapter....
THEY PROCLAIMED A FAST— It was customary among the Jews, to proclaim anniversary fasts upon certain days, in memory of some great calamity which had befallen them at that time. Of this kind were the f...
2. _The reading by Baruch_ (Jeremiah 36:8-10) TRANSLATION (8) And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all which Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the scroll the words of the LORD...
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 peop...
EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE COLLECTION OF JEREMIAH'S PROPHECIES INTO A VOLUME (4TH AND 5TH YEARS OF JEHOIAKIM) The prophecies concerning Israel and Judah are now ended, and we have here the record of t...
IN THE NINTH MONTH] our December. It was thus a specially appointed fast, not that of the seventh month which alone was prescribed by the Law (Leviticus 16:29; Leviticus 23:27)....
IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM. — The LXX. gives “the _eighth_ year,” but the Hebrew text gives much the more probable date. What follows refers apparently to the same occasion as Jere...
וַ יְהִ֣י בַ † שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ֠ חֲמִשִׁית...
CHAPTER III THE ROLL Jeremiah 36:1 "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee."- Jeremiah 36:2 THE incidents which form so large a proportion of the c...
A VAIN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY GOD'S WORD Jeremiah 36:1-32 These written words had been directly given from God, Jeremiah 36:18. The fast was instituted to seek divine help in the approaching conflict wit...
This chapter constitutes an interpolation in the chronological order of Jeremiah's prophesying. In detail it tells the story of the writing of the words of Jeremiah in a book to which he had incidenta...
And it came to pass in the fifth (g) 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...
_Fast. Probably on account of the catastrophe the second year, Daniel i. 2. Many such were afterwards appointed, Zacharias vii. 3., and viii. 19. All came to Jerusalem on such occasions._...
It should seem,, that Baruch made great use of this roll, and read in it to the people continually! For it was in the fourth year of Jehoiakim that he wrote it, and began to read it; and here we find...
Here is added a fuller explanation; for the Prophet relates nothing new, but according to what is common in Hebrew he expresses at large what he had before briefly stated: for he had said, that Baruch...
Chapter 36 furnishes us with another example of the obstinacy with which the kings of Judah despised the call and the testimony of God. Jeremiah was shut up; but God can never fail in means to address...
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH, IN THE NINTH MONTH,.... This was a different time of reading the book from the former, enjoined by the prophet, and...
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 peo...
_In the fifth year, &c., they proclaimed a fast_ “It was customary among the Jews to proclaim anniversary fasts upon certain days, in memory of some great calamities which had befallen them at that ti...
THE PROPHECIES RECORDED AND READ...
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 peop...
9-19 Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those, who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to the power of it. The princes patiently attended the reading o...
This fast was appointed upon a particular emergency, whether it was for a famine which was then in the land, or to avert the ruin which they justly feared from the king of Babylon, who had lately brou...
Jeremiah 36:9 fifth H2549 year H8141 Jehoiakim H3079 son H1121 Josiah H2977 king H4428 Judah H3063 ninth H8671 mon
BARUCH'S READING OF THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH IN THE TEMPLE COMES TO THE EARS OF THE PRINCES OF JUDAH WHO SUMMON HIM TO READ IT BEFORE THEM (JEREMIAH 36:9). Baruch's (or Jeremiah's) influence comes out in...
JEREMIAH WRITES OUT HIS PROPHECIES IN WRITTEN FORM AND COMMITS THEM TO BARUCH WHO READS THEM OUT IN THE TEMPLE. THE SCROLL EVENTUALLY REACHES JEHOIAKIM WHO DEMONSTRATES HIS CONTEMPT FOR THE PROPHET BY...
NINTH MONTH That is, December....
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's writing in the days of Jehoiakim. Reading on the fast day. Burning of the roll and orders to persecute Jeremiah. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Josiah, Baruch, Gemariah, M...
Jeremiah 36:1. _The fourth year of Jehoiakim._ Though this chapter seems out of its place, yet it may not be so, but may be a reference to past events. Jeremiah 36:2. _Take thee a roll of a book._ Anc...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—“_Fourth of Jehoiakim._” See Note on chap. 25. 2. NATIONAL AFFAIRS.—Jehoiakim was at that time vassal of Pharoah-Necho; but Nebuchadnezzar...
CHAPTERS 36-38. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS PRECEDING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. Jeremiah 36:1. THE ROLL OF PROPHECY DESTROYED BY JEHOIAK
This time shall we turn to Jeremiah chapter 36 as we continue our journey through the Word of God towards heaven. Now as we have pointed out, the prophecies of Jeremiah are not in chronological order...
2 Chronicles 20:3; Esther 4:16; Isaiah 58:1; Jeremiah 36:1; Jere
THE WORD OF THE LORD Jeremiah 36:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want to show you how it was that Jeremiah spoke not his own words, but the words of the Lord. In order to do this, we want to place before y...