And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
And they asked Baruch, 'Tell us, how did you write down all these words as he spoke them to you?'
The officials are questioning Baruch about how he recorded Jeremiah's prophecies, wanting to understand the process of how God's message was documented.
📚 Historical Context
In the ancient kingdom of Judah, during the reign of King Jehoiakim around 605 BC, the prophet Jeremiah was delivering warnings of God's judgment against the people's idolatry and disobedience. Jeremiah dictated his prophecies to his faithful scribe, Baruch, who wrote them on a scroll to be read publicly. When the scroll was presented to the royal officials, they interrogated Baruch to understand the exact process of how he recorded Jeremiah's words from his mouth.
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