Bible Strands
Jeremiah 30:2
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD, identified as the God of Israel, speaks directly to the prophet Jeremiah. This command is delivered immediately after a divine word arrives to him, preceding a promise of national restoration.
The words — The imperative כְּתָב (ke.tov) commands "write," while כֹּֽה (koh) opens the declaration with "thus." These terms frame the instruction as a direct, authoritative divine dictation.
The thread — This command to record prophetic utterances parallels Isaiah 30:8 and appears in Jeremiah 36:2 and Jeremiah 36:32. Each instance reinforces the practice of preserving spoken divine messages for future witness.
Why it lands — The text demands the literal preservation of every spoken word without omission or alteration. A reader must treat the recorded message as an exact transcript of divine communication rather than a summary.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 30:8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
- Jeremiah 36:32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
- Jeremiah 36:2 “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
- Jeremiah 51:60 Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
- Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
- Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
- 1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
- 2 Peter 1:21 For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- Revelation 1:11 saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- Revelation 1:19 Therefore write down the things you have seen, the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.