2Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;
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For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)How Baruch was employed in writing Jeremiah’s prophecies, and reading them, we had an account Jer. 36:1-32, and how he was threatened for it by the king, warrants being out for him and he forced to abscond, and how narrowly he escaped under a divine protection, to which story this chapter should have been subjoined, but that, having reference to a private person, it is here thrown into the latter…
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