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that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none,
but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
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I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending
them,
saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend
your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have
given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
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Because
the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he
commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
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Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but
they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
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And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God
of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his
precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
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Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for
ever.
CHAPTER 36
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 L
ORD
, saying,
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Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the
words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations,
from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even into this day.
3
It may be that the
house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every
man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4
Then Jeremiah called Baruch
the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the L
ORD
, which
he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
5
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I
am
shut up; I cannot go into the house of the L
ORD
:
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Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which
thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the L
ORD
in the ears of the people in the L
ORD
’S
house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of
their cities.
7
It may be they will present their supplication before the L
ORD
, and will return every
one from his evil way: for great
is
the anger and the fury that the L
ORD
hath pronounced against
this people.
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And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet
commanded him, reading in the book the words of the L
ORD
in the L
ORD
’S house.
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And it came to
pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month,
that
they
proclaimed a fast before the L
ORD
to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came
from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
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Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in
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