Jeremiah 36:17 meaning and explanation
“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
Jeremiah 36:17, Berean Standard Bible
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The officials of King Jehoiakim have just heard Baruch read the scroll in the scribe's chamber, and they are alarmed. Their question is a legal inquiry: they want to know whether the words came from Jeremiah himself or from Baruch, since a prophet's message carried authority and the scribe was only the pen.
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