Jeremiah Rewrites the Scroll

After Jehoiakim burns the scroll, the word of the LORD comes commanding Jeremiah to take another scroll and rewrite everything that was on the first. The LORD then pronounces judgment on Jehoiakim for burning the scroll and rejecting the prophecy of Babylon's coming, declaring that he will lack a stable Davidic heir, suffer posthumous disgrace, and bring punishment on his house, while Jeremiah dictates the rewritten scroll to Baruch with many similar words added.

A²⁷fter the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: ²⁸“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned. ²⁹You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’ ³⁰Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night. ³¹I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.” ³²Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he 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.