Efforts to Destroy the Christian Books in Madagascar
Jeremiah 36:27-32
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll…


The purpose to extinguish Christianity was firmly determined on. The week after the Queen Ranavalona's message had been delivered, every person who had received books was ordered to deliver them up, without retaining even a single leaf, on pain of death. This order was severely felt; few obeyed it literally, and in the distant provinces scarcely any obeyed it at all

(Jacox.).



Parallel Verses
KJV: Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

WEB: Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,




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