Down through the centuries men have tried to destroy the Bible but it is still here—in larger numbers than ever before.
Jehoiakim, the ill-fated king of Judah, cut the roll of the prophecy of Jeremiah to pieces with a pen knife and committed them to the flames of the brazier in his winter house. He did not like the stern warnings and the fearful predictions of the prophet. Jeremiah predicted captivity in Babylon, if the nation did not repent. Jehoiakim treated the message of the prophet with utter contempt. But two things should be remembered: the words of the ancient prophet remained and heavy doom fell upon the self-willed and irreverent king. He died or was murdered and his unburied body was drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem—as the prophet said, he was given “the burial of an ass.” God will not hold him guiltless who deals lightly with his word.
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