1. In the records it will be found that Jeremiah the prophet ordered the deportees to take some of the fire with them as indicated,
2. and that the prophet, in giving them the law, directed the deportees not to forget the commandments of the Lord or be led astray in their thoughts, when seeing the gold and silver idols and their adornments.
3. With other similar words he exhorted them that the law should not depart from their hearts.
4. The same document also tells how the prophet, in virtue of an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should accompany him, and how he went to the very mountain that Moses climbed to behold God’s inheritance.
5. When Jeremiah arrived there, he found a chamber in a cave in which he put the tent, the ark, and the altar of incense; then he sealed the entrance.
6. Some of those who followed him came up intending to mark the path, but they could not find it.
7. When Jeremiah heard of this, he reproved them: “The place is to remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows them mercy.
8. Then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will be seen, just as they appeared in the time of Moses and of Solomon when he prayed that the place might be greatly sanctified.”
9. It is also related how Solomon in his wisdom offered a sacrifice for the dedication and the completion of the temple.
10. Just as Moses prayed to the Lord and fire descended from the sky and consumed the sacrifices, so also Solomon prayed and fire came down and consumed the burnt offerings.
11. Moses had said, “Because it had not been eaten, the purification offering was consumed.”
12. Solomon also celebrated the feast in the same way for eight days.
13. These same things are also told in the records and in Nehemiah’s memoirs, as well as how he founded a library and collected the books about the kings and the prophets, the books of David, and the royal letters about votive offerings.