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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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah composes a written record of impending judgment for Babylon while preparing the prophet’s message for Seraiah, the quartermaster traveling with King Zedekiah to Babylon in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַ/יִּכְתֹּ֣ב (va/i.yikh.To) translates literally as "and he wrote," marking the physical inscription of the decree. The noun הָ/רָעָ֛ה (ha./ra.'Ah) means "the calamity," specifying the exact nature of the disaster being recorded.
The thread — This documentation of prophetic judgment aligns with Jeremiah 30:2, Jeremiah 36:32, and Isaiah 30:8, where writing on a scroll or tablet preserves divine warnings for future witness.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to treat prophetic declarations as formally documented historical accounts, demanding acknowledgment that written divine warnings are fixed and actionable rather than abstract.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 36:2 “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.
- Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
- 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.