Jeremiah 36:17

They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”

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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

16Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”

18Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”

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Cross References

John 9:10They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

John 9:26They said to him again, “What did he do to you? 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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