Discovery BoxJeremiah 3:4 
Context3:4 Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! 1
You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
Jeremiah 11:7
Context11:7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. 2 I warned them again and again, 3 ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.
Jeremiah 36:22
Context36:22 Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters. 4 A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him. 5
1 tn Heb “Have you not just now called out to me, ‘[you are] my father!’?” The rhetorical question expects a positive answer.
2 tn Heb “warned them…saying, ‘Obey me.’” However, it allows the long sentence to be broken up easier if the indirect quote is used.
3 tn For the explanation for this rendering see the note on 7:13.
4 tn Heb “in the autumn house.” Commentators are agreed that this was not a separate building or palace but the winter quarters in the palace.
sn Larger houses, including the palace, were two-storied buildings with a lower quarters better suited for the cold of winter and an upper quarters which was better ventilated to provide cool in the summer. Since this was the ninth month (December) the king had taken up residence in the lower, warmer quarters which were equipped with a portable fire pot or brazier to keep him warm.
5 tc Heb “the fire in the firepot was burning before him.” The translation assumes that the word “fire” (אֵשׁ, ’esh) has dropped out after the particle אֶת (’et) because of the similar beginnings of the two words. The word “fire” is found in the Greek, Syriac, and Targumic translations according to BHS. The particle אֵת should be retained rather than dropped as an erroneous writing of אֵשׁ. Its presence is to be explained as the usage of the sign of the accusative introducing a new subject (cf. BDB 85 s.v. אֶת 3.α and compare the usage in 27:8; 38:16 [in the Kethib]; 45:4).
