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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 36:1-32

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 but they sort of skip around, and so it is important at the beginning of each chapter where Jeremiah locates for you the time and usually the place of the prophecy so that you'll be able to fit it more into the historic events. Because you just can't read Jeremiah in a chronological order, it isn't... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 36:1-32

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. Ancient volumes of parchment were rolled, and sometimes on a staff. The writing was in columns from the right to the left, so that the reader could with ease coil up in his right hand what he had read. Jeremiah 36:3 . It may be that the house of Judah will hear that I may forgive their... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 36:3

Jeremiah 36:3It may be. It may beI. This word shows us the heart of God. Displeased because of sin, but longing to show mercy to the sinner. All His counsels and warnings, promises and threatenings, are for good (Deuteronomy 5:29-33; Deuteronomy 32:44-47; Isaiah 1:18-20; Jeremiah 8:7-11; Ezekiel 12:3; Ezekiel 18:31; Hosea 11:1-8; John 3:16-17; Luke 19:10; Luke 19:41-42).II. This word reveals the grand possibilities of human life.1. Earnest attention (Jeremiah 36:3).2. Penitential prayer... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 36:4-7

Jeremiah 36:4-7I am shut up.Jeremiah in prison1. Jeremiah’s age was one of great political troubles.2. It was also an age of signal religious privileges.3. It was an age of great moral corruption.I. His imprisonment suggests the sad moral character of his age. The prisons of an age are often criteria by which to determine its character. When prisons are filled with men of signal excellence of character, force of conscience, and self-denying philanthropy, you have sad moral proofs of the deep... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 36:6

Jeremiah 36:6The fasting-day. Symbolism of a fastI. It exhibits the duty of a wise self-restraint or self-denial, in receiving the good gifts of heaven. What could more exactly typify this than the temporary withdrawing from innocent pleasure, and even from the proper nourishment of the frame? It is temporary, and not absolute; an occasion, and not a permanency; a suspension, and not a renunciation. It admonishes us by an example, and does not crush us by a law. It reminds us of the obligation... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 36:20-26

Jeremiah 36:20-26He cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until an the ton was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth The burnt rollI.The incidents connected with the text.II. A few observations upon them.1. The piety of the parent is no assured guarantee for the religion of the son. The life of the Spirit can alone come from God, and it is given and withheld in a way to us past finding out. There are many instances in which we should not be justified... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 36:24

Jeremiah 36:24Yet they were not afraid.The hardening power of sinIs it conceivable that men who believed Jeremiah to be a prophet of God should despise his words? Is it credible that, after preaching for twenty years, those who listened to him should think him a prophet, and yet throw his sermons in the fire? I am afraid this is very conceivable and very credible: I see nothing in it a whir more incredible than in this, that men who dare not deny the Bible to be the Word of God, should know... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 36:26

Jeremiah 36:26But the Lord hid him.Hidden, but radiant“The Lord hid him.” What that precisely means it is impossible to say: Was there a John of Gaunt for this Wycliff, an Elector of Saxony for this Luther? Did Ahikam, who had before interposed on his behalf, or his sons--Gemariah, who lent Jeremiah his room in the Temple for the reading of his roll, and Gedaliah, who became Governor of Judah after Zedekiah’s deportation--take the prophet under their care? Or was this hiding something more... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 36:1

Jer 36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Ver. 1. And it came to pass in the fourth year. ] This whole chapter is historical and narrative, as also are some others besides this. Historias lege, ne fias historia. read more

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