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Text -- Jeremiah 36:17 (NET)

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36:17 Then they asked Baruch, “How did you come to write all these words? Do they actually come from Jeremiah’s mouth?”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Baruch son of Zabbai and a priest repairer of the wall who also pledged to keep the law,son of Col-Hozeh of Judah,son of Neriah; Jeremiah's secretary


Dictionary Themes and Topics: ROLL (SCROLL) | PEN | PARCHMENT | Jeremiah | Jehoiakim | JEREMIAH (2) | Gemariah | Elijah | Baruch | BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY | BARUCH, BOOK OF | more
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TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Constable

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

JFB: Jer 36:17 - -- What they wished to know was, whether what Baruch had read to them was written by him from memory after hearing Jeremiah repeating his prophecies cont...

What they wished to know was, whether what Baruch had read to them was written by him from memory after hearing Jeremiah repeating his prophecies continuously, or accurately from the prophet's own dictation.

Clarke: Jer 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 whethe...

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 prophesied.

Calvin: Jer 36:17 - -- The king’s counsellors were, no doubt, so astonished when they heard that these threatenings had been written as the Prophet had dictated them, tha...

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 unbelieving are wont to be; and not receiving as they ought to have done, the heavenly doctrine, they vacillated, and could not pursue a uniform course. Such, then, was the uncertainty that possessed the minds of the princes; for they could hardly believe that these words had been delivered by memory, but had suspicion of some trickery, as the unbelieving imagine many such things respecting God’s servants; and they seem to act thus designedly, that they may obscure God’s favor, which appears before their eyes. For this purpose, then, they are said to ask Baruch how he took the words from the mouth of Jeremiah 105

TSK: Jer 36:17 - -- Tell : Joh 9:10,Joh 9:11, Joh 9:15, Joh 9:26, Joh 9:27

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Jer 36:17 - -- 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 ...

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.

Poole: Jer 36:17 - -- 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 s...

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 study and pen their discourses, but to speak them extempore.

Gill: Jer 36:17 - -- 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...

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 at his mouth? this question does not regard the manner of writing them, whether with ink or not, for that they could see with their eyes, and yet Baruch's answer seems to have respect to this, as if he so understood them; nor barely the matter of them, as whether it was the substance of what was contained in the roll that Jeremiah dictated, and that only, leaving it to Baruch to use what words he would, or whether the express words were dictated by him; but rather it seems to have regard to the possibility of doing it: by the question it appears, that Baruch had told the princes that the prophet had dictated all these things to him, and he had taken them down in writing from his mouth; now they wanted more satisfaction about the truth of this matter. It was a difficulty with them how it was possible for Jeremiah to recollect so many different discourses and prophecies, delivered at different times, and some many years ago, and so readily dictate them to Baruch, as fast as he could write them; wherefore they desire he would tell them plainly and faithfully the truth of the matter, how it was, that so they might, if they could, affirm it with certainty to the king; since, if this was really fact which he had related, these prophecies originally, and the fresh dictating of them, must be from the Spirit of God, and would certainly have their accomplishment.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 36:17 Or “Did Jeremiah dictate them to you?” The words “Do they actually come from Jeremiah’s mouth?” assume that the last phr...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Jer 36:1-32 - --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...

MHCC: Jer 36:9-19 - --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. ...

Matthew Henry: Jer 36:9-19 - -- It should seem that Baruch had been frequently reading out of the book, to all companies that would give him the hearing, before the most solemn rea...

Constable: Jer 2:1--45:5 - --II. Prophecies about Judah chs. 2--45 The first series of prophetic announcements, reflections, and incidents th...

Constable: Jer 34:1--45:5 - --D. Incidents surrounding the fall of Jerusalem chs. 34-45 The Book of Consolation contained messages of ...

Constable: Jer 34:1--36:32 - --1. Incidents before the fall of Jerusalem chs. 34-36 The events recorded in these chapters took ...

Constable: Jer 36:1-32 - --Jeremiah's scroll ch. 36 "While ch. 36 is, in a sense, an independent unit, it is at the...

Constable: Jer 36:9-20 - --Its reading 36:9-20 36:9 During the winter of 604-603 B.C., the people, not the king, declared a fast. The occasion for the fast may have been the arr...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) JEREMIAH, son of Hilkiah, one of the ordinary priests, dwelling in Anathoth of Benjamin (Jer 1:1), not the Hilkiah the high priest who discovered the ...

JFB: Jeremiah (Outline) EXPOSTULATION WITH THE JEWS, REMINDING THEM OF THEIR FORMER DEVOTEDNESS, AND GOD'S CONSEQUENT FAVOR, AND A DENUNCIATION OF GOD'S COMING JUDGMENTS FOR...

TSK: Jeremiah 36 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Jer 36:1, Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophesy, v.5, and publicly to read it; v.11, The princes, having intelligence thereof by M...

Poole: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH THE ARGUMENT IT was the great unhappiness of this prophet to be a physician to, but that could not save, a dying sta...

Poole: Jeremiah 36 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 36 Jeremiah causeth Baruch to write his prophecy, and publicly to read it, Jer 36:1-10 . The princes send to fetch the roll and read it, Je...

MHCC: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) Jeremiah was a priest, a native of Anathoth, in the tribe of Benjamin. He was called to the prophetic office when very young, about seventy years afte...

MHCC: Jeremiah 36 (Chapter Introduction) (Jer 36:1-8) Baruch is to write the prophecies of Jeremiah. (Jer 36:9-19) The princes advise them to hide themselves. (Jer 36:20-32) The king having...

Matthew Henry: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah The Prophecies of the Old Testament, as the Epistles of the New, are p...

Matthew Henry: Jeremiah 36 (Chapter Introduction) Here is another expedient tried to work upon this heedless and untoward people, but it is tried in vain. A roll of a book is provided, containing a...

Constable: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book derives from its writer, the late seventh an...

Constable: Jeremiah (Outline) Outline I. Introduction ch. 1 A. The introduction of Jeremiah 1:1-3 B. T...

Constable: Jeremiah Jeremiah Bibliography Aharoni, Yohanan, and Michael Avi-Yonah. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. Revised ed. London: C...

Haydock: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAS. INTRODUCTION. Jeremias was a priest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city, in the tribe of Benjamin, and was sanct...

Gill: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH The title of the book in the Vulgate Latin version is, "the Prophecy of Jeremiah"; in the Syriac and Arabic versions, "the...

Gill: Jeremiah 36 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 36 This chapter gives an account of an impious action of King Jehoiakim's burning the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies read u...

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