Jer 36 | TSK | STEP | Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophesy, and publicly to read it. The princes, having intelligence thereof by Michaiah, send Jehudi to fetch the roll and read it. They will Baruch to hide himself and Jeremiah. The king, Jehoiakim, being certified thereof, hears part of it, and burns the roll. Jeremiah denounces his judgment. Baruch writes a new copy.

with ink.{Baddeyo} is rendered by some, after him; but {deyo} (in Chaldee and Syriac {deyootha,} and in Welsh {du,}) certainly denotes ink; whence are derived the Arabic {dawat} and {deweet,} and Persian {deeveet,} an ink-holder; the Syriac {dayowo}, and Persian {div,} the devil. So the Alexandrian copy of the LXX. has [en melani,] and Vulgate {atramento,} "with ink." Perhaps the princes supposed that Baruch had written this roll from memory; and that it was rather to be considered as his composition, than the substance of Jeremiah's prophecies; and they might ask this apparently frivolous question in order to allay the alarms excited by considering it as the word of God. But Baruch, with great simplicity, so answered their question, as to shew that he only acted as Jeremiah's amanuensis, and wrote verbatim what he had dictated.

26; 26:20-24; 1Ki 17:3; 18:4,10; 2Ch 25:15; Pr 28:12; Am 7:12

Lu 13:31; Ac 5:40; 23:16-22

12,21

Jehudi.

And Jehudi.

15; 23:28; 26:2; 2Ki 22:10; 2Ch 34:18; Eze 2:4,5 A warm apartment suited to the season of the year, (December, when snow is often upon the ground in Palestine,) in which was a pan or brazier ({ach,} or {ikhkh,} as it is pronounced in Arabic) of burning charcoal; for we learn from Bp. Pococke, and Dr. Russel, that this was the mode in which the Orientals warmed their apartments.

22:14-16; 3:20; Am 3:15

he cut.

29-31; De 29:19-21; 1Ki 22:8,27; Ps 50:17; Pr 1:30; 5:12; 13:13

Pr 19:21; 21:30; 29:1; Isa 5:18,19; 28:14,15,17-22; Re 22:19

they.

16; Job 15:4; Ps 36:1; 64:5; Isa 26:11; Ro 3:18

nor rent.

5:3; 1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 19:1,2; 22:11-19; 2Ch 34:19-31; Isa 36:22; 37:1

Jon 3:6; Mt 12:41

Elnathan.

12; 26:22

made.

13:15-17; Ge 37:22,26-28; Mt 27:4,24,25; Ac 5:34-39

but.

Pr 21:29

Hammelech. or, the king. to take.

2:30; 26:21-23; 1Ki 19:1-3,10,14; Mt 23:34-37; 26:47-50

Joh 7:32; 8:20; 11:57

but.

5,19; 1:19; 15:20,21; 1Ki 17:3,9; 18:4,10-12; 2Ki 6:18-20

Ps 27:5; 32:7; 57:1; 64:2; 91:1; 121:8; Isa 26:20; Joh 8:59; Ac 12:11

28:13,14; 44:28; Job 23:13; Zec 1:5,6; Mt 24:35; 2Ti 2:13

Thou hast.

De 29:19; Job 15:24; 40:8; Isa 45:9; Ac 5:39; 1Co 10:22

Why.

26:9; 32:3; Isa 29:21; 30:10; Ac 5:28

The king.

21:4-7,10; 28:8; 32:28-30; 34:21,22

He shall.

22:30; 2Ki 24:12-15

and his.

22:18; Ge 31:40

in the.Sir J. Chardin observes, "In the Lower Asia, in particular, the day is always hot; and as soon as the sun is fifteen degrees above the horizon, no cold is felt in the depth of winter itself. On the contrary, in the height of summer the nights are as cold as at Paris in the month of March. It is for this reason that in Persia and Turkey they always make use of furred habits in the country, such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights. I have travelled in Arabia, and in Mesopotamia, (the theatre of the adventures of Jacob,) both in winter and in summer, and have found the truth of what the Patriarch said, "That he was scorched with the heat in the day, and stiffened with cold in the night." (Ge 31:40.) This contrariety in the qualities of the air in twenty-four hours is extremely great in some places, and not conceivable by those that have not felt it; one would imagine that he had passed in a moment from the violent heats of summer to the depth of winter. Thus it had pleased God to temper the heat of the sun by the coldness of night, without which the greatest part of the East would be barren, and a desert."

punish. Heb. visit upon.

23:34; *marg:

will bring.

11:8; 17:18; 19:15; 29:17-19; 35:17; 44:4-14; Le 26:14; De 28:15-68

Pr 29:1

but.

Mt 23:37

took.

28-30

who.

4,18; Ex 4:15,16; Ro 16:22

there.

Le 26:18,21,24,28; Da 3:19; Re 22:18

like words. Heb. words as they.