Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"Go and hide, you and Jeremiah"
Text: Jeremiah 36:19
ADVICE FROM THE PRINCES
The princes were gripped with fear as they listened to what Baruch read from Jeremiah’s scroll. They felt that they must give a strong word of advice.
“And they asked Baruch, saying,
‘Tell us now, how did you write all these words—at his instruction?’
So Baruch answered them,
‘He proclaimed with his mouth all these words to me,
and I wrote them with ink in the book.’
Then the princes said to Baruch,
‘Go and hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no one know where you are.'”
Jeremiah 36:17-19
1. “And they asked Baruch, saying,
‘Tell us now, how did you write all these words—at his instruction?'”
a) An important question had to be raised.
b) How did Baruch write these words at all?
c) They were more reflective of Jeremiah’s way of writing and speaking.
d) They asked Baruch pointedly whether he had been instructed by Jeremiah to write these words.
2. “So Baruch answered them, ‘He proclaimed with his mouth all these words to me,
and I wrote them with ink in the book.'”
a) Baruch’s honest answer.
b) He was honest in his answer.
i) Jeremiah spoke all the words.
ii) Baruch’s part was to write all that Jeremiah had uttered into a book (scroll).
3. “Then the princes said to Baruch, ‘Go and hide, you and Jeremiah;
and let no one know where you are.'”
a) The advice of the princes was urgent and clear.
b) Baruch and Jeremiah must go into hiding.
c) They must not tell anyone where they are to hide.
d) The princes did not want to know the secret hiding place either.
e) The reason why this advice was given was clear.
King Jehoiakim would arrest them and kill them if he could find them.