Jeremiah 36:2

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. TAKE THEE A ROLL OF A BOOK - a book formed of prepared skins made into a roll. Compare "volume of the book" - i:e., the Pentateuch (). 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 ALL THE NATIONS - ( , ETC.) FROM THE DAYS OF JOSIAH - (), from Josiah's 13th year ...

The Prophet then says at the beginning, that _the word of Jehovah came, _by which he was ordered to _write in a volume of a book whatever he had previously spoken _By the volume of a book he means the volume in which he was to write; for ספר _sepher, _does not here mean a written book, for the volume was without any writing. Then the Prophet must have dictated to his servant Baruch. And this mode of speaking occurs also elsewhere, as in Psalms 40:7. But the Hebrews, according to an ancient custom, called a volume מגלה _, megele; _for they had no books in a compact form, such as we have in the present day, but had volumes or rolls; and the same word, volume, is also used in Latin. For as the Hebrews called what is folded up מגלה _, megele, _which comes from גלל...

1-8 The writing of the Scriptures was by Divine appointment. The Divine wisdom directed to this as a proper means; if it failed, the house of Judah would be the more without excuse. The Lord declares to sinners the evil he purposes to do against them, that they may hear, and fear, and return from their evil ways; and whenever any one makes this use of God's warnings, in dependence on his promised mercy, he will find the Lord ready to forgive his sins. All others will be left without excuse; and the consideration that great is the anger God has pronounced against us for sin, should quicken both our prayers and our endeavours....

Verse Jeremiah 36:2. _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....

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” Acts 20:27 upon the special point mentioned in Jeremiah 36:3; and that the prophet was not to keep anything back....

CHAPTERS 36-38. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS PRECEDING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. Jeremiah 36:1. THE ROLL OF PROPHECY DESTROYED BY JEHOIAKIM. EXPOSITION In the fourth year of Jehoiakim (which, it is important to remember, was the first of Nebuchadnezzar) Jeremiah was directed to write down all his previous revelations, from the beginning of his ministry to the present day. Such, at least, is the literal meaning of verses 1, 2; but it would seem that the literal meaning can hardly be the right one. First of all, a historically accurate reproduction of the prophecies would not have suited Jeremi

TAKE THEE A ROLL OF A BOOK,.... A roll of parchment, which being wrote on, and rolled up, was called a book; but books, in those times, did not consist of leaves cut and stitched together, and bound up, as our books are, but sheets of parchments being written upon, were glued together, and then rolled up; hence such writings were called volumes; which name we still retain, and give to books, though the same practice is not used: AND WRITE THEREIN ALL THE WORDS THAT I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO THEE AGAINST ISRAEL, AND AGAINST JUDAH; for though Israel was carried captive before the times of Jeremiah, and his prophecies were chiefly directed against Judah; yet as there were some of the ten tribes mixed with them, they were included in these prophecies, and therefore mentioned: AND AGAINST ALL THE NATIONS; such as Egypt, Edom, Ammon, and Moab, Jeremiah 9:26;...

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 36:21) 4. The indestructibility of the Word of God (Jeremiah 36:27) Jeremiah 36:1. Once more we are taken back to the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Jeremiah is now commanded to commit all the words Jehovah had spoken to him to writing. It was for the purpose that the people might hear of all the evil and

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 book see Introduction, § 4, for the probable contents of the roll. The circumstances also throw light on the origin of written prophecy in general; the failure of the oral testimony (Jeremiah 36:3 cf. Isaiah 8:1; Isaiah 8:16; Isaiah 30:8) led to its preservation through writing. The pioneers amongst the so-called literary prophets are not primarily writers at all; the written records of their work are largely incidental, a fact which helps to explain the f

ROLL. a writing scroll. Hebrew. _megillah._ Occurs twenty-one times (fourteen times in this chapter. Psalms 40:7; Ezekiel 2:9; Ezekiel 3:1; Ezekiel 3:2; Ezekiel 3:3.Zechariah 5:1; Zechariah 5:2). The name given to the five books called the _megilloth_ (Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther). WORDS. Plural Compare "word" (singular) ...