Jeremiah 36:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ So Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet ·told [^Lcommanded] him to do. In the Lord’s ·Temple [^Lhouse] he read aloud the scroll that had the Lord’s messages written on it.

⁹ In the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king [^C604 bc], a fast was announced. All the people of Jerusalem and everyone who had come into Jerusalem from the towns of Judah were supposed to ·give up eating to honor [^Lfast before] the Lord. ¹⁰ At that time Baruch read to all the people there the scroll containing Jeremiah’s words. He read the scroll in the ·Temple [^Lhouse] of the Lord in the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan, a ·royal secretary [scribe]. That ·room [chamber] was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the Temple.