And they asked Baruch, &c.— Mr. Green, on Psalms 13 observes, that these words should be placed and pointed thus:—How didst thou write all these words? From his mouth? And Baruch answered them, From his mouth. He pronounced all these words unto me, and I wrote, &c.
Verse Jeremiah 36:17. _HOW DIDST THOU WRITE ALL THESE WORDS? - AT HIS MOUTH?_] So the text should be pointed. They wished to know whether he had not copied them, or whether he wrote as Jeremiah prophe...
The scroll might have been drawn up by Baruch from memoranda of his own without the prophet’s direct authority. The princes therefore did not ask from curiosity, but to obtain necessary information....
CHAPTER 36 The Indestructibility of the Word of God _ 1. The writing of the roll (Jeremiah 36:1) _ 2. The reading of the roll (Jeremiah 36:4) 3. The king cuts and burns the roll (Jeremiah 36
JEREMIAH 36. THE WRITING OF THE ROLL. This chapter narrates how the oral prophecies of Jeremiah were first put into writing (604 B.C.). The account is obviously important for the criticism of this boo...
See introd. summary to the chapter....
_How didst thou write_ They desired to know how far the words might be Baruch's own, so as to be able to state to the king to what extent, if any, the prophet's amanuensis was responsible. _at his mo...
3. _The reaction of the Princes_ (Jeremiah 36:11-19) TRANSLATION (11) When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD as they were read from the book, (12) he we...
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? HOW DIDST THOU WRITE ALL THESE WORDS AT HIS MOUTH? What they wished to know was, whether what Baruch...
EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE COLLECTION OF JEREMIAH'S PROPHECIES INTO A VOLUME (4TH AND 5TH YEARS OF JEHOIAKIM) The prophecies concerning Israel and Judah are now ended, and we have here the record of t...
(17-19) TELL US NOW, HOW DIDST THOU WRITE...? — The question was clearly put as a judicial interrogatory. The princes were anxious to ascertain how far each of the parties concerned was responsible. H...
וְ אֶ֨ת ־בָּר֔וּךְ שָׁאֲל֖וּ לֵ אמֹ֑ר הַגֶּד
CHAPTER III THE ROLL Jeremiah 36:1 "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee."- Jeremiah 36:2 THE incidents which form so large a proportion of the c...
A VAIN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY GOD'S WORD Jeremiah 36:1-32 These written words had been directly given from God, Jeremiah 36:18. The fast was instituted to seek divine help in the approaching conflict wit...
This chapter constitutes an interpolation in the chronological order of Jeremiah's prophesying. In detail it tells the story of the writing of the words of Jeremiah in a book to which he had incidenta...
It should seem,, that Baruch made great use of this roll, and read in it to the people continually! For it was in the fourth year of Jehoiakim that he wrote it, and began to read it; and here we find...
The king’s counsellors were, no doubt, so astonished when they heard that these threatenings had been written as the Prophet had dictated them, that they were agitated by different thoughts, as the un...
Chapter 36 furnishes us with another example of the obstinacy with which the kings of Judah despised the call and the testimony of God. Jeremiah was shut up; but God can never fail in means to address...
AND THEY ASKED BARUCH,.... The following question, which may seem at first sight an odd, needless, and trifling one, as some have called it: SAYING, TELL US NOW, HOW DIDST THOU WRITE ALL THESE WORDS...
_And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?_ Ver. 17. _Tell us, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?_] _Praeposteram movent interroga...
_When they heard all the words_ It is hardly to be imagined that all these counsellors would sit still till they had heard all the prophecies read which Jeremiah had uttered for the last twenty-two ye...
THE PROPHECIES RECORDED AND READ...
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? They wanted exact information before proceeding any farther in the matter....
9-19 Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those, who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to the power of it. The princes patiently attended the reading o...
This now seemed but a reasonable question, considering they were the substance of what he had been prophesying for so many years. The thing seemed strange to the princes, prophets being not used to st...
Jeremiah 36:17 asked H7592 (H8804) Baruch H1263 saying H559 (H8800) Tell H5046 (H8685) write H3789 ...
THE PRINCES HAVING LISTENED TO WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE SCROLL ASCERTAIN THE FACTS ABOUT IT AND FEEL IT NECESSARY TO INFORM THE KING ABOUT ITS CONTENTS MEANWHILE ADVISING BARUCH AND JEREMIAH TO GO INTO...
JEREMIAH WRITES OUT HIS PROPHECIES IN WRITTEN FORM AND COMMITS THEM TO BARUCH WHO READS THEM OUT IN THE TEMPLE. THE SCROLL EVENTUALLY REACHES JEHOIAKIM WHO DEMONSTRATES HIS CONTEMPT FOR THE PROPHET BY...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's writing in the days of Jehoiakim. Reading on the fast day. Burning of the roll and orders to persecute Jeremiah. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Josiah, Baruch, Gemariah, M...
Jeremiah 36:1. _The fourth year of Jehoiakim._ Though this chapter seems out of its place, yet it may not be so, but may be a reference to past events. Jeremiah 36:2. _Take thee a roll of a book._ Anc...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—“_Fourth of Jehoiakim._” See Note on chap. 25. 2. NATIONAL AFFAIRS.—Jehoiakim was at that time vassal of Pharoah-Necho; but Nebuchadnezzar...
CHAPTERS 36-38. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS PRECEDING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. Jeremiah 36:1. THE ROLL OF PROPHECY DESTROYED BY JEHOIAK
This time shall we turn to Jeremiah chapter 36 as we continue our journey through the Word of God towards heaven. Now as we have pointed out, the prophecies of Jeremiah are not in chronological order...
THE WORD OF THE LORD Jeremiah 36:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want to show you how it was that Jeremiah spoke not his own words, but the words of the Lord. In order to do this, we want to place before y...