2Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. …
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here, I. Jeremiah is directed to write what God had spoken to him, which perhaps refers to all the foregoing prophecies. He must write them and publish them, in hopes that those who had not profited by what he said upon once hearing it might take more notice of it when in reading it they had leisure for a more considerate review. Or, rather, it refers to the promises of their enlargement, which ha…
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