Jeremiah 36:17

“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

18“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”

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Cross References

John 9:10“How were your eyes opened?” they asked.

John 9:26“What did He do to you?” they asked again. “How did He open your eyes?”

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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