28 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
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Take thee again another roll - There was no duplicate of the former preserved; and now God inspired the prophet with the same matter that he had given him before; and there is to be added the heavy judgment that is to fall on Jehoiakim and his courtiers.
Take thee again (o) another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burned.
(o) Though the wicked think to have abolished the word of God when they have burnt the book of it, yet this declares that God will not only raise it up again but also increase it in greater abundance to their condemnation as in (Jeremiah 36:32).
Take thee again another roll,.... Or a piece of parchment; or rather several pieces of parchment glued or rolled up together:
and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burnt; just as when the two tables of the law were broken, two others were made, and the same laws written on them; and so here the same Spirit of God, which brought to the mind of the prophet all his former discourses and prophecies, so that he could readily dictate them to Baruch, could and did renew them again; wherefore Jehoiakim's burning of the roll signified nothing: all attempts to destroy the word of God are in vain; they always have been, and will be; for the word of the Lord endures for ever.
all the former words--It is in vain that the ungodly resist the power of Jehovah: not one of His words shall fall to the ground (Matthew 5:18; Acts 9:5; Acts 5:39).
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