Jeremiah 36:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now it came about that, after hearing all the words, they said to one another in fear, We will certainly give the king an account of all these words.

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  • Jer 13:18 : 18 Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.
  • Jer 36:24 : 24 But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.
  • Amos 7:10-11 : 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words. 11 For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.
  • Acts 24:25-26 : 25 And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you. 26 For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.
  • Jer 38:1-4 : 1 Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, that Jeremiah had said to all the people, 2 These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe. 3 The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it. 4 Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.

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  • Jer 36:10-15
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    10Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all the people.

    11And Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, after hearing all the words of the Lord from the book,

    12Went down to the king's house, to the scribe's room: and all the rulers were seated there, Elishama the scribe and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the rulers.

    13Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.

    14So all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the book from which you have been reading to the people and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the book in his hand and came down to them.

    15Then they said to him, Be seated now, and give us a reading from it. So Baruch did so, reading it to them.

  • Jer 36:17-21
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    17And questioning Baruch, they said, Say now, how did you put all these words down in writing from his mouth?

    18Then Baruch, answering, said, He said all these things to me by word of mouth, and I put them down with ink in the book.

    19Then the rulers said to Baruch, Go and put yourself in a safe place, you and Jeremiah, and let no man have knowledge of where you are.

    20Then they went into the open square to the king; but the book they put away in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they gave the king an account of all the words.

    21So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.

  • Jer 36:4-8
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    4Then Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah; and Baruch took down from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had said to him, writing them in a book.

    5And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:

    6So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come out from their towns.

    7It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.

    8And Baruch, the son of Neriah, did as Jeremiah the prophet gave him orders to do, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

  • Jer 36:24-27
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    24But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.

    25And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made a strong request to the king not to let the book be burned, but he would not give ear to them.

    26And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.

    27Then after the book, in which Baruch had put down the words of Jeremiah, had been burned by the king, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

  • Jer 45:1-2
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    1The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,

    2This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:

  • Jer 43:3
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    3But Baruch, the son of Neriah, is moving you against us, to give us up into the hands of the Chaldaeans so that they may put us to death, and take us away prisoners into Babylon.

  • Jer 36:32
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    32Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of other words of the same sort.

  • Jer 32:13
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    13And I gave orders to Baruch in front of them, saying,

  • Jer 38:27
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    27Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public.

  • Jer 16:10
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    10And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • Jer 38:1
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    1Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, that Jeremiah had said to all the people,

  • Jer 43:1
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    1And it came about that when Jeremiah had come to the end of giving all the people the words of the Lord their God, which the Lord their God had sent him to say to them, even all these words,

  • Jer 32:16
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    16Now after I had given the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I made my prayer to the Lord, saying,

  • 2 Chr 34:16
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    16And Shaphan took the book to the king; and he gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants are doing all they have been given to do;

  • Jer 51:61
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    61And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;

  • 2 Chr 34:18
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    18Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he made a start at reading some of it to the king.

  • Jer 28:7
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    7But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people:

  • Jer 35:11-12
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    11But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.

    12Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

  • Acts 16:38
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    38And the police gave an account of these words to the authorities, and they were full of fear on hearing that they were Romans;

  • Jer 38:24-25
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    24Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man have knowledge of these words, and you will not be put to death.

    25But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;

  • Jer 38:19
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    19And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I am troubled on account of the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldaeans, for fear that they may give me up to them and they will put me to shame.

  • Jer 26:7-8
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    7And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.

    8Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

  • Jer 37:11
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    11And it came about that when the Chaldaean army outside Jerusalem had gone away for fear of Pharaoh's army,

  • Jer 30:5
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    5This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

  • Matt 17:6
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    6And at these words the disciples went down on their faces in great fear.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,