Jeremiah 35-37

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God teaches Jeremiah a lesson about keeping to the rules handed down with an example of a group of people who were told they'd be better off if they drunk no wine and didn't own fields or crops and lived in tents. It's not clear what they achieved by sticking to their ancestor's ruling, but God says this is a good lesson. Actually it sounds like he's jealous that some mere human told his family not to do these things and they still keep to that order but whatever God does he can't convince his people to follow anything he tells them.

Jeremiah gets a scribe to take dictation and then read the scroll to various people, some tell him and Jeremiah to hide before the King hears what the scroll says. The King burns the scroll when it is read to him and demands to see Jeremiah and his scribe friend but they are too well hidden and writing another identical scroll that also includes lots of insults to the king for burning the first scroll.