Jeremiah 36:28-30

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁸Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

²⁹And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says the Lord: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon shall surely come and destroy this land and shall cut off man and beast from it?

³⁰Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: ^[a]He shall have no [heir] to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 36:30 This prophecy against King Jehoiakim was literally fulfilled. Several years after these events, the king rebelled against Babylon (II Kings 24:1) and was attacked by numerous bands from various nations subject to Babylon (II Kings 24:2). He thus came to a violent death and a disgraceful burial such as Jeremiah had foretold several chapters before this one (Jer. 22:13-19). There, after a stern and scathing censure of the king, the Lord foretells through his prophet that Jehoiakim will “be buried with the burial of a donkey—dragged out and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem” (Jer. 22:19). How could Jeremiah possibly have foreseen these events except by divine inspiration?