Jeremiah was God’s messenger to Israel at that critical period when Jerusalem was about to be overrun by Nebuchadnezzar. God gave him a message for the Jews and for the evil king, Jehoiakim. The prophet could not deliver the message because he was “confined” (Jer. 36:5), so his scribe, Baruch, read the message to all who were assembled at the temple. This resulted in those very words being read in the presence of King Jehoiakim, at his own house.
When that king heard that part of the Bible being read, he was enraged. He took his knife and literally cut up the scroll and threw it in the fire to destroy it. Would God let His word be destroyed in such a way? Would He let part of the Bible be lost forever?
God told Jeremiah, “Take another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim . . . burned.” You can trust your Bible. No man can destroy it!