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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 36:12

The scribe’s chamber - The chancery in which the king’s business was conducted. Probably Elishama was one of the “principal scribes of the host” Jeremiah 52:25, i. e., the secretary of state for war. The business which had brought together “all the princes” would have reference to the Chaldaean war. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 36:11-15

Jeremiah 36:11-15. When Michaiah, the son of Shaphan, had heard, &c. Shaphan’s family were all great men at court: see note on Jeremiah 26:24; he went down into the king’s house, &c. It is uncertain whether this Michaiah went to make this relation to the princes, who sat in the secretary’s chamber, as a piece of news only, or out of a malicious design to accuse the prophet and Baruch, as persons guilty of a seditious practice, in what they had done. Then Michaiah declared unto... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 36:1-32

Jehoiakim burn’s Jeremiah’s scroll (36:1-32)God commanded Jeremiah to write down all the prophecies he had given during the previous twenty years and announce them again to Judah. Perhaps even yet the nation would repent and so escape God’s judgment (36:1-3).Over the next year Jeremiah wrote down the messages, using Baruch as his scribe. Since Jeremiah was forbidden to enter the temple (see 20:1-2; 26:7-9), he arranged for Baruch to go on his behalf and read the scroll to the people (4-7).... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 36:12

went down. Compare Jeremiah 22:1 . Elnathan. The king's emissary against Urijah (Jeremiah 26:22 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 36:11

READING OF THE ROLL TO ALL THE PRINCES"And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of Jehovah, he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, to wit, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 36:12

12. scribe's chamber—an apartment in the palace occupied by the secretary of state. princes—holding a counsel of state at the time. Elnathan—who had already been an instrument of evil in Jehoiakim's hand (Jeremiah 26:22; Jeremiah 26:23). Hananiah—the false prophet (Jeremiah 28:10-17). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 36:11-13

When Micaiah, Gemariah’s son, heard the scroll read, he went into the scribe’s room in the palace, where all the king’s officials had gathered, and told them what he had heard. Achbor, the father of Elnathan, had been present at the reading of the law scroll in Josiah’s day (2 Kings 22:12). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 36:1-32

Events Connected with the Collection of Jeremiah’s Prophecies into a Volume (4th and 5th years of Jehoiakim)The prophecies concerning Israel and Judah are now ended, and we have here the record of the embodying in a permanent form by Jeremiah of the substance of these prophecies. For further remarks see Intro.2. A roll of a book] Several skins were stitched together and attached to a roller of wood. The writing was arranged in columns parallel to the roller, so that as the parchment was... read more

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