John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 45:1
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah ,.... Who was his amanuensis or scribe; and this word he spake not to him of himself, but in the name of the Lord, as coming from him; so the Targum calls it, "the word of prophecy which Jeremiah the prophet prophesied concerning Baruch the son of Neriah:' when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah ; not what immediately precede, concerning the destruction of the Jews in Egypt; which were... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 45:1-5
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 end of the book, as St. Paul's epistle to Phlm. is put after his other epistles. Observe, I. The... read more