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  Jeremiah 34-36


34:1 While Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples in the empire he ruled were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding towns, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
34:2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says
34:3 You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and handed over to him. You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.
34:4 ""Yet hear the promise of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you
34:5 you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, "Alas, O master!" I myself make this promise, declares the LORD.""
34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
34:7 while the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that were still holding out-- Lachish and Azekah. These were the only fortified cities left in Judah.
34:8 The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the slaves.
34:9 Everyone was to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Jew in bondage.
34:10 So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.
34:11 But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.
34:12 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah
34:13 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says
34:14 "Every seventh year each of you must free any fellow Hebrew who has sold himself to you. After he has served you six years, you must let him go free." Your fathers, however, did not listen to me or pay attention to me.
34:15 Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight
34:16 But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your slaves again.
34:17 "Therefore, this is what the LORD says
34:18 The men who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.
34:19 The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf,
34:20 I will hand over to their enemies who seek their lives. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
34:21 "I will hand Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials over to their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon, which has withdrawn from you.
34:22 I am going to give the order, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."
35:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD during the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah
35:2 "Go to the Recabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the house of the LORD and give them wine to drink."
35:3 So I went to get Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons-- the whole family of the Recabites.
35:4 I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God. It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.
35:5 Then I set bowls full of wine and some cups before the men of the Recabite family and said to them, "Drink some wine."
35:6 But they replied, "We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jonadab son of Recab gave us this command
35:7 Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads."
35:8 We have obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab son of Recab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine
35:9 or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
35:10 We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
35:11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded this land, we said, "Come, we must go to Jerusalem to escape the Babylonian and Aramean armies." So we have remained in Jerusalem."
35:12 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying
35:13 "This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says
35:14 "Jonadab son of Recab ordered his sons not to drink wine and this command has been kept. To this day they do not drink wine, because they obey their forefather's command. But I have spoken to you again and again, yet you have not obeyed me.
35:15 Again and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, "Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you and your fathers." But you have not paid attention or listened to me.
35:16 The descendants of Jonadab son of Recab have carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not obeyed me."
35:17 "Therefore, this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says
35:18 Then Jeremiah said to the family of the Recabites, "This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says
35:19 Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says
36:1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
36:2 "Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah till now.
36:3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, each of them will turn from his wicked way; then I will forgive their wickedness and their sin."
36:4 So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the words the LORD had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.
36:5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch, "I am restricted; I cannot go to the LORD's temple.
36:6 So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.
36:7 Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each will turn from his wicked ways, for the anger and wrath pronounced against this people by the LORD are great."
36:8 Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do; at the LORD's temple he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.
36:9 In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.
36:10 From the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple, Baruch read to all the people at the LORD's temple the words of Jeremiah from the scroll.
36:11 When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,
36:12 he went down to the secretary's room in the royal palace, where all the officials were sitting
36:13 After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll,
36:14 all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, "Bring the scroll from which you have read to the people and come." So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the scroll in his hand.
36:15 They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.
36:16 When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."
36:17 Then they asked Baruch, "Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it?"
36:18 "Yes," Baruch replied, "he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll."
36:19 Then the officials said to Baruch, "You and Jeremiah, go and hide. Don"t let anyone know where you are."
36:20 After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him.
36:21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all the officials standing beside him.
36:22 It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him.
36:23 Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe's knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.
36:24 The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.
36:25 Even though Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
36:26 Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
36:27 After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah
36:28 "Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.
36:29 Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, "This is what the LORD says
36:30 Therefore, this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah
36:31 I will punish him and his children and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.""
36:32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

  Hebrews 2


2:1 We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
2:2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
2:3 how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
2:4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
2:5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
2:6 But there is a place where someone has testified
2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor
2:8 and put everything under his feet." In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.
2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
2:10 In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
2:11 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
2:12 He says, "I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises."
2:13 And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again he says, "Here am I, and the children God has given me."
2:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-- that is, the devil--
2:15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
2:16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.
2:17 For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
2:18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.