Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord,.... The prophecies of Jeremiah he had taken from him in writing on a roll of parchment; these he read in the temple, in a part of it, after described:in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe; not a scribe of the law, or an officer of the temple, but the king's chancellor or secretary of state; for this is the title, not of Gemariah, who had a chamber in the temple here mentioned, in which Baruch read his roll, and was an officer there, but of Shaphan, as the accents show, and as his title runs elsewhere, 2Ki 22:9; which chamber wasin the higher court; it looked into it, which some say was the court of the priests; but into that Baruch, not being a priest, could not enter: rather, according to Dr.
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Jeremiah 36:10
Jeremiah 36:10
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Jeremiah 36 — OverviewJeremiah 36 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is another expedient tried to work upon this heedless and untoward
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had…Jeremiah 36 — OverviewJeremiah 36 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJeremiah 36:1, Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophesy, v.5, and publicly to read it; v.11, The princes, having intelligence thereof by Michaiah, send Jehudi to fetch the roll and read it; v.19, They will Baruch to…Jeremiah 36 — OverviewJeremiah 36 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter gives an account of an impious action of King Jehoiakim's burning the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies read unto him, and the consequence of it. The order to write this roll, the time when, the contents and…Jeremiah 36:9-19Jeremiah 36:9-19 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIt should seem that Baruch had been frequently reading out of the book,
to all companies that would give him the hearing, before the most
solemn reading of it altogether which is here spoken of; for the…Jeremiah 36:10Jeremiah 36:10 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeThen: Jeremiah 36:6, Jeremiah 36:8
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Gemariah: Jeremiah 36:11, Jeremiah 36:25
Shaphan: Jeremiah 36:11, Jeremiah 26:24, Jeremiah 29:3
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