Jeremiah 36:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

Jeremiah 36:17 —

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John 9:15
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
John 9:10-11
Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? …
John 9:26-27
Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? …

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Baruch

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-19)

It 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 directions were given about it in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, whereas this was done in the fifth year, Jer. 36:9. But some think that the writing of the book fairly over took up so much time that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. What they wished to know was, whether what Baruch had read to them was written by him from memory after hearing Jeremiah repeating his prophecies continuously, or accurately from the prophet’s own dictation.