Jeremiah 36:22
Good News Translation
It was winter and the king was sitting in his winter palace in front of the fire.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the king was sitting in his winter apartment (it was the ninth month), and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.

New American Bible
Now the king was sitting in his winter house, since it was the ninth month, and a fire was burning in the brazier before him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.

Jeremiah 22:14-16 Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion. . . .

Jeremiah 3:20 But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

Amos 3:15 And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.

Context
King Jehoiakim Burns the Scroll
21And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume: who bringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read it in the hearing of the king, and of all the princes that stood about the king. 22Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.23And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the penknife, and he cast it into the fire, that was upon the hearth, till all the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth.…
Cross References
Judges 3:20
Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne.

Jeremiah 36:9
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that were come together out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem.

Amos 3:15
And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 36:21
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