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26 He also ordered Jerahmeel, who was one of the royal princes,[a] Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. However, the Lord hid them.

Baruch and Jeremiah Write Another Scroll

27 The Lord’s message came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll with the words Baruch had written down at Jeremiah’s dictation.[b] 28 “Get another[c] scroll and write on it everything[d] that was written on the original scroll[e] that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 36:26 tn Heb “the son of the king.” Many of the commentaries express doubt that this actually refers to Jehoiakim’s own son. Jehoiakim was only about thirty at this time, and one of his sons would not have been old enough to have been in such a position of authority. The same doubt is expressed about the use of this term in 38:6 and in 1 Kgs 22:26. Rather than referring to the king's own son, the term can indicate a member of the royal family.
  2. Jeremiah 36:27 tn Heb “from the mouth of Jeremiah.”
  3. Jeremiah 36:28 tn Heb “Return, take another.” The verb “return” is used in the sense of repetition: “take again” (cf. BDB 998 s.v. שׁוּב Qal.8). The idea is already contained in “Get another,” so most modern English versions do not represent it.
  4. Jeremiah 36:28 tn Heb “all the former words/things.”
  5. Jeremiah 36:28 tn Heb “first [or former] scroll.”