Jeremiah 36:18 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 36:18

“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

KJV

Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

He pronounced - He used to say aloud, he dictated. Baruch’s office was merely mechanical. He contributed nothing but hand, pen, and ink.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
לָהֶם֙	la.Hem	to <the> them
בָּר֔וּךְ	ba.Rukh	Baruch	H1263 →
מִפִּיו֙	mi.Piv	from mouth his	H6310 →
יִקְרָ֣א	yik.Ra'	he proclaimed	H7121 →
אֵלַ֔י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
אֵ֥ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַדְּבָרִ֖ים	ha.de.va.Rim	the words	H1697 →
הָאֵ֑לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
וַאֲנִ֛י	va.'a.Ni	and I	H589 →
כֹּתֵ֥ב	ko.Tev	[was] writing	H3789 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַסֵּ֖פֶר	ha.Se.fer	the scroll	H5612 →
בַּדְּיֽוֹ׃ פ	ba.de.Yo	with <the> ink	H1773 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 36:2
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of…
leads to
- Jeremiah 30:2
  “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
- Jeremiah 36:6
  so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the…
- Jeremiah 25:3
  “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again,…
- Exodus 17:14
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Jeremiah 1:10
  See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
Through
Jeremiah 36:4
So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
leads to
- Jeremiah 32:12
  and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews…
- Ezekiel 2:9
  Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
- Jeremiah 36:32
  Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah…