Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
The verse belongs to the account of the scroll that Jeremiah gave Baruch to read to the king, whose message contained reproofs that ancient Israel refused to receive. It comes after the scroll was read, in the context of the king's rejection and burning of God's message. When the princes heard all the words of the roll they were afraid and said they would surely tell the king all these words. They asked Baruch how he wrote all the words at Jeremiah's mouth, and Baruch answered that Jeremiah pronounced all the words to him and he wrote them with ink in the book. The princes then laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and went to tell all the words to the king.
Fearing the king's hostility after the reading, the princes told Baruch and Jeremiah to go hide themselves and let no one know where they were. Their concealment was accompanied by the Lord's protection of them. The verse shows the peril of faithful servants who bear God's warning to rulers and the kind of treatment the Lord's faithful servants receive in every age when people pass the boundary line and reject warning messages. Their concealment and protection warn that similar opposition to God's messages would arise in Battle Creek.
The verse belongs to the account of the scroll that Jeremiah gave Baruch to read to the king, whose message contained reproofs that ancient Israel refused to receive. It comes after the scroll was read, in the context of the king's rejection and burning of God's message. When the princes heard all the words of the roll they were afraid and said they would surely tell the king all these words. They asked Baruch how he wrote all the words at Jeremiah's mouth, and Baruch answered that Jeremiah pronounced all the words to him and he wrote them with ink in the book. The princes then laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and went to tell all the words to the king.
Fearing the king's hostility after the reading, the princes told Baruch and Jeremiah to go hide themselves and let no one know where they were. Their concealment was accompanied by the Lord's protection of them. The verse shows the peril of faithful servants who bear God's warning to rulers and the kind of treatment the Lord's faithful servants receive in every age when people pass the boundary line and reject warning messages. Their concealment and protection warn that similar opposition to God's messages would arise in Battle Creek.