Reminiscent of YHWH’s preparation
of a second pair of tablets at Mount Sinai after Moses destroyed the originals,
YHWH instructs Jeremiah simply to dictate a second scroll identical to the
first. Now, however, YHWH supplements the message for Jehoiakim contained in
the scroll with an announcement of consequences for rejecting Jeremiah’s
preaching. YHWH will bring upon the king, his house, his servants, and the
entire population of Jerusalem and Judah “all the disaster that I announced for
them” (v 31). So Jeremiah dictated another scroll, adding “many similar words”
(v 32). (Mark E. Biddle, Jeremiah: The Contextual Critical Commentary [The
Contextual Critical Commentary; Eugene, Oreg.: Cascade Books, 2026], 292)
