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# It happened that
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This phrase marks an important event in the story. Jeremiah wrote God's prophesies on a scroll but the king burned it. It is possible this action was intended to be understood as representing the definitiveness of these prophecies.
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# columns
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these are columns of words on the scroll
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# would cut it off
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"would cut that part of the scroll off"
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# with a knife
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"using the kind of knife that scribes use"
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# until all of the scroll was destroyed
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"until the scroll was completely gone"