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30 Therefore[a] thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, “There will not be for him one who sits on the throne of David. And his dead body will be thrown out to the heat in the day and to the frost in the night. 31 And I will punish him, and his offspring, and his servants for their guilt, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disaster with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen.”’” 32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the secretary, and he wrote on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, had burned in the fire, and furthermore was added to them many words like these.

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  1. Jeremiah 36:30 Literally “To thus”

30 Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim(A) king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out(B) and exposed(C) to the heat by day and the frost by night.(D) 31 I will punish him and his children(E) and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster(F) I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.(G)’”

32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated,(H) Baruch wrote(I) on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned(J) in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

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