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Jeremiah 36:
Neriah took the scroll to King Jehoiakim's officials. Read it to them. They asked:
Not every word in the Bible must be preserved critically.
God spoke to Jeremiah. Jeremiah dictated it Neriah, word for word. That was the process of divine inspiration.1In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today. 3Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.” 4So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
Neriah took the scroll to King Jehoiakim's officials. Read it to them. They asked:
Neriah confirmed that it was the word of the Lord, verbatim. After Jehoiakim heard of it, he burned the scroll. However,17“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
18“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”
Again, word for word, or was it?27 After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 28“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.
Did God inspire these added words? Where are these words now in the Scripture? What does this say about the process of divine inspiration?32Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Not every word in the Bible must be preserved critically.