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Jeremiah 36:4
So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah summons Baruch son of Neriah to record divine messages on a scroll immediately after declaring his intent to bring Judah to repentance through written judgment.
The words — וַ/יִּכְתֹּ֨ב (va/i.yikh.To) means "and he wrote," describing Baruch’s physical act of inscribing the scroll. אֶת\־ ('et-) functions as a direct object marker linking the action to "all the words."
The thread — This dictation and recording pattern reappears when Jeremiah later commissions Baruch to write a second scroll after the original is destroyed (Jeremiah 36:32) and mirrors the earlier transfer of a legal deed to the same scribe (Jeremiah 32:12).
Why it lands — The text requires recognizing that prophetic warning depends on accurate human transmission, demanding careful attention to how divine words are preserved and delivered.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 32:12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 2:9 Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
- Jeremiah 43:3 Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, so that they may put us to death or exile us to Babylon!”
- Isaiah 8:1 Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
- Jeremiah 36:17 “Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
- Jeremiah 36:21 Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.
- Jeremiah 36:23 And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- Jeremiah 36:26 Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
- Jeremiah 36:28 “Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.