And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Jeremiah gave Baruch a roll to write and to read to the king, containing the Lord's reproofs to ancient Israel, which the people would not receive, and which was later burned. After Michaiah's report the princes heard Baruch read the roll, became afraid one toward another, and said they would surely tell the king all the words. The verse is the officials asking Baruch how he wrote all the words in the scroll at Jeremiah's dictation. Baruch answered that Jeremiah pronounced all the words to him with his mouth and he wrote them with ink in the book. The princes then told Baruch and Jeremiah to go hide themselves and let no man know where they were.
After the princes reported to the king, Jehoiakim rejected the warning, cut the roll with a penknife and burned it in the fire without fear despite intercession. He sought to seize Jeremiah and Baruch, while God protected them. When the first scroll was burned, God had the message written again with more added.
Destroying the written message could not make God's word fail, and the messages of warning are repeated. The account is a warning that people in the present may respond to God's messages as Judah's king did. That act is virtually repeated by those who burn the messages of the Spirit of God.
Jeremiah gave Baruch a roll to write and to read to the king, containing the Lord's reproofs to ancient Israel, which the people would not receive, and which was later burned. After Michaiah's report the princes heard Baruch read the roll, became afraid one toward another, and said they would surely tell the king all the words. The verse is the officials asking Baruch how he wrote all the words in the scroll at Jeremiah's dictation. Baruch answered that Jeremiah pronounced all the words to him with his mouth and he wrote them with ink in the book. The princes then told Baruch and Jeremiah to go hide themselves and let no man know where they were.
After the princes reported to the king, Jehoiakim rejected the warning, cut the roll with a penknife and burned it in the fire without fear despite intercession. He sought to seize Jeremiah and Baruch, while God protected them. When the first scroll was burned, God had the message written again with more added.
Destroying the written message could not make God's word fail, and the messages of warning are repeated. The account is a warning that people in the present may respond to God's messages as Judah's king did. That act is virtually repeated by those who burn the messages of the Spirit of God.