KJV King James Version
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.
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Jeremiah 36:22
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
WEB World English Bible
Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
ASV American Standard Version
Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the king is sitting in the winter-house, in the ninth month, and the stove before him is burning,
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 36
19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.
23 And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
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Amos 3:15And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 36:9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.Jeremiah 3:20Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 22:14-16That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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