19Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
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Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah: …
As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
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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 th…
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