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Take a scroll [of parchment] for a book and write on it all the words I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations from the day I spoke to you in the days of [King] Josiah until this day. Jeremiah 36:2 AMPC
A scroll was a significant amount of parchment that was cut and stitched together. Then it was rolled together in a “book.” Today, Jewish synagogues still use such scrolls. Writing everything the Lord told Jeremiah on the scroll would have been done to preserve the message for future generations.
Deuteronomy 17:18-20 records another time in Israel’s history when Moses instructed future kings to write a copy of the law by hand in a book. And each king was to read from it all the days of his life so he’d learn to fear the Lord.
Have you ever handwritten significant portions of the scriptures for the same purpose? Or maybe to help you memorize it? Several recent studies have indicated that copying information by hand makes the material easier to remember. If you’ve never done so, consider picking apportion of scripture—maybe one that will speak to an area you are struggling in—then write it out by hand. You may experience a breakthrough.
Prayer: Lord, show me which portion of scripture to write out by hand that I might learn to fear You better.
A scroll was a significant amount of parchment that was cut and stitched together. Then it was rolled together in a “book.” Today, Jewish synagogues still use such scrolls. Writing everything the Lord told Jeremiah on the scroll would have been done to preserve the message for future generations.
Deuteronomy 17:18-20 records another time in Israel’s history when Moses instructed future kings to write a copy of the law by hand in a book. And each king was to read from it all the days of his life so he’d learn to fear the Lord.
Have you ever handwritten significant portions of the scriptures for the same purpose? Or maybe to help you memorize it? Several recent studies have indicated that copying information by hand makes the material easier to remember. If you’ve never done so, consider picking apportion of scripture—maybe one that will speak to an area you are struggling in—then write it out by hand. You may experience a breakthrough.
Prayer: Lord, show me which portion of scripture to write out by hand that I might learn to fear You better.
