1 Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophesy,
5 and publicly to read it.
11 The princes, having intelligence thereof by Michaiah, send Jehudi to fetch the roll and read it.
19 They will Baruch to hide himself and Jeremiah.
20 The king, Jehoiakim, being certified thereof, hears part of it and burns the roll.
27 Jeremiah denounces his judgment.
32 Baruch writes a new copy.

25:1 35:1 2Ki 24:1,2

2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

a roll. 6,23,29 30:2 45:1 51:60 Ex 17:14 De 31:24 Ezr 6:2 Job 31:35 Ps 40:7 Isa 8:1 30:8,9 Eze 2:9 3:1-3 Hab 2:2,3 Zec 5:1-4 Re 5:1-9

write. 30:2 Ho 8:12

against Israel. 2:4 3:3-10 23:13,14 32:30-35 2Ki 17:18-20

against all. 1:5,10 25:9-29 47:1-51:64

from the days. 1:2,3 25:3

3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

may be. 7 18:8 26:3 De 5:29 Eze 12:3 Zep 2:3 Lu 20:13 2Ti 2:25,26 2Pe 3:9

hear. Eze 18:27,28 33:7-9,14-16 Mt 3:7-9 Lu 3:7-9

they may. Eze 18:8,11 23:14 24:7 35:15 De 30:2,8 1Sa 7:3 1Ki 8:48-50 2Ch 6:38,39 Ne 1:9 Isa 55:6,7 Eze 18:23 Jon 3:8-10 Ac 26:20

that I. Isa 6:10 Mt 13:15 Mr 4:12 Ac 3:19 26:18 28:27

4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

Baruch. 26 32:12 43:3

wrote. Baruch is supposed to have been a disciple of Jeremiah; and being a ready scribe, he was employed by the prophet as amanuensis.

17,18,32 45:1,2 Ro 16:22

upon. 21,23,28,32 Isa 8:1 Eze 2:9 Zec 5:1

5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

20:2 32:2 33:1 37:15 38:6,28 40:4 2Co 11:23 Eph 3:1 6:20 2Ti 2:9 Heb 11:36

6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

and read. 8 Eze 2:3-7

the words. 7:2 18:11 19:14 22:2 26:2

upon. 9 Le 16:29-31 23:27-32 Ac 27:9

7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

It may. 3 1Ki 8:33-36 2Ch 33:12,13 Da 9:13 Ho 5:15 6:1 14:1-3

they will present their supplication. Heb. their supplications shall fall. and will. 1:3 25:5 Jon 3:8 Zec 1:4

for. 4:4 16:10 19:15 21:5 De 28:15 29:18-28 2Ki 22:13,17 2Ch 34:21 La 4:11 Eze 5:13 8:18 13:13 20:33 22:20 24:8-13

8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

did. 4 1:17 Mt 16:24 1Co 16:10 Php 2:19-22

in the. Ne 8:3 Lu 4:16

9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the fifth. 1

they. Le 23:27 2Ch 20:3 Ne 9:1 Es 4:16 Isa 58:1-3 Joe 1:13 2:12-17 Jon 3:5 Zec 7:5,6 8:19

came. 6

10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.

Then. 6,8

in the chamber. 35:4

Gemariah. 11,25

Shaphan. 11 26:24 29:3

the scribe. 52:25 2Sa 8:17 20:25 2Ki 18:37

entry. or, door. 26:10 2Ki 15:35

11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

Shaphan. 10 2Ki 22:12-14 25:22 2Ch 34:20

12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

Elishama. 20,21 41:1

Elnathan. 25 26:22 2Ki 22:12,14 24:8

Gemariah. 10,11 2Ki 22:3,12

Hananiah. 28:1

13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

2Ki 22:10,19 2Ch 34:16-18,24 Jon 3:6

14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

Nethaniah. 40:8 41:1,2,16,18 2Ki 25:23

Cushi. Zep 1:1

took. 2 Eze 2:6,7 Mt 10:16,28

15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

and read. 21

16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

they were. 24 Ac 24:25,26

We. 13:18 38:1-4 Am 7:10,11

17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

Tell. Joh 9:10,11,15,26,27

18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

He. 2,4 43:2,3 Pr 26:4,5

with ink. {Baddeyo} us rendered by some, [after him]; but {deyo} (in Chaldee and Syriac {deyootha,} and in Welsh {du,}) certainly denotes ink; whence are derived the Arabic {dawat} and {deweet}, and Persian {deeveet,} an ink-holder; the Syriac {dayowo}, and Persian {div}, the devil. So the Alexandrian copy of the LXX, has, and Vulgate {atramento} with ink. Perhaps the princes supposed that Baruch had written this roll from memory; and that it was rather to be considered as his composition, than the substance of Jeremiah's prophecies; and they might ask this apparently frivolous question in order to allay the alarms excited by considering it as the word of God. But Baruch, with great simplicity, so answered their question, as to shew that he only acted as Jeremiah's amanuensis, and wrote verbatim what he had dictated.

19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

26 26:20-24 1Ki 17:3 18:4,10 2Ch 25:15 Pr 28:12 Am 7:12 Lu 13:31 Ac 5:40 23:16

20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

12,21

21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

Jehudi. 14

And Jehudi. 15 23:28 26:2 2Ki 22:10 2Ch 34:18 Eze 2:4,5

22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

A warm apartment suited to the season of the year, (December, when snow is often upon the ground in Palestine,) in which was a pan or brazier ({ach,} or {ikhkh,} as it is pronounced in Arabic) of burning charcoal; for we learn from Bp Pococke, and Dr. Russuel, that this was the mode in which the Orientals warmed their apartments.

22:14-16 3:20 Am 3:15

23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

he cut. 29-31 De 29:19-21 1Ki 22:8,27 Ps 50:17 Pr 1:30 5:12 13:13 Pr 19:21 21:30 29:1 Isa 5:18,19 28:14,15,17-22 Re 22:19

24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

they. 16 Job 15:4 Ps 36:1 64:5 Isa 26:11 Ro 3:18

nor rent. 5:3 1Ki 21:27 2Ki 19:1,2 22:11-19 2Ch 34:19-31 Isa 36:22 37:1 Jon 3:6 Mt 12:41

25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.

Elnathan. 12 26:22

made. 13:15-17 Ge 37:22,26-28 Mt 27:4,25,25 Ac 5:34-39

but. Pr 21:29

26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

Hammelech. or, the king. to take. 2:30 26:21-23 1Ki 19:1-3,10,14 Mt 23:34-37 26:47-50 Joh 7:32 8:20 11:57

but. 5,19 1:19 15:20,21 1Ki 17:3,9 18:4,10-12 2Ki 6:18-20 Ps 27:5 32:7 57:1 64:2 91:1 121:8 Isa 26:20 Joh 8:59 Ac 12:11

27 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,

28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

28:13,14 44:28 Job 23:13 Zec 1:5,6 Mt 24:35 2Ti 2:13

29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Thou hast. De 29:19 Job 15:24 40:8 Isa 45:9 Ac 5:39 1Co 10:22

Why. 26:9 32:3 Isa 29:21 30:10 Ac 5:28

The king. 21:4-7,10 28:8 32:28-30 34:21,22

30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

He shall. 22:30 2Ki 24:12-15

and his. 22:18 Ge 31:40

in the. Sir J. Chardin observes, In the Lower Asia, in particular, the day is always hot; and as soon as the sun is fifteen degrees above the horizon, no cold is felt in the depth of winter itself. On the contrary, in the height of summer the nights are as cold as at Paris in the month of March. It is for this reason that in Persia and Turkey they always make use of furred habits in the country, such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights. I have travelled in Arabia, and in Mesopotamia, (the theatre of the adventures of Jacob,) both in winter and in summer, and have found the truth of what the Patriarch said, 'That he was scorched with the heat in the day, and stiffened with cold in the night.' (Ge 31:40.) This contrariety in the qualities of the air in twenty-four hours is extremely great in some places, and not conceivable by those that have not felt it; one would imagine that he had passed in a moment from the violent heats of summer to the depth of winter. Thus it had pleased God to temper the heat of the sun by the coldness of night, without which the greatest part of the East would be barren, and a desert.

31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.

punish. Heb. visit upon. 23:34

will bring. 11:8 17:18 19:15 29:17-19 35:17 44:4-14 Le 26:14 De 28:15 Pr 29:1

but. Mt 23:37

32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

took. 28-30

who. 4,18 Ex 4:15,16 Ro 16:22

there. Le 26:18,21,24,28 Da 3:19 Re 22:18

like words. Heb. words as they.