Jeremiah 36:18

Then Baruch said to them: “He was speaking with his mouth, as if reading to me. And I wrote in a volume with ink.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And they questioned him, saying, “Describe to us how you wrote all these words from his mouth.”

19And the leaders said to Baruch: “Go away and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”

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Cross References

Jeremiah 36:2“Take the volume of a book, and you shall write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah, and against all the nations, from the day when I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Jeremiah 43:2Azariah, the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the exalted men, spoke to Jeremiah, saying: “You are speaking a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say: ‘You shall not enter into Egypt so as to live in that place.’

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 36:10-20

Baruch Reads the Roll to the Princes. ( b. c. 607.) 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. 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,… Read the whole commentary →

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