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Jeremiah 36:31
I 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.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — YHWH speaks through Jeremiah to pronounce judgment on Jehoiakim, his household, and the people of Judah and Jerusalem. This declaration immediately follows the king’s burning of the prophetic scroll and precedes the dictation of its replacement.
The words — The Hebrew verb פָּקַדְתִּי (paqadti) literally means “I will visit” or “I will attend to,” denoting the execution of judgment. It governs עֲוֹנָם (avonam), “their iniquity,” establishing the specific ground for the coming calamity.
The thread — The pattern of enforced consequences for unheeded warning runs through Proverbs 29:1, Jeremiah 19:15, and Jeremiah 23:34. Each passage links persistent refusal to listen with the inevitable arrival of the stated judgment.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to acknowledge that divine warnings are binding and that repeated rejection guarantees the announced outcome. It demands a sober assessment of the cost of ignoring prophetic instruction rather than dismissing it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 29:1 A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- Jeremiah 19:15 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
- Jeremiah 23:34 As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
- Jeremiah 35:17 Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
- Leviticus 26:14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
- Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
- Jeremiah 17:18 Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
- Jeremiah 29:17 this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
- Jeremiah 44:4 Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’