Verse 2
Jeremiah was to write on a scroll (Heb. megillath sepher) all the prophecies that he had delivered concerning Israel, Judah, and the other nations since he began prophesying in the reign of Josiah (627 B.C.; cf. Jeremiah 1:2; Jeremiah 25:3). Most of the prophecies in the present Book of Jeremiah that date from this period are in chapters 1-25 and 46-51, but they were probably not in the same order on this scroll. Since Baruch and Jehudi read them on three separate occasions in one day (Jeremiah 36:8; Jeremiah 36:15; Jeremiah 36:21), perhaps Baruch did not read the whole scroll on the first two of these occasions.
Perhaps the Babylonians’ victory over the Assyrians and Egyptians at Carchemish in 605 B.C. provided the impetus for this project. With the Babylonians in power, Judah was one giant step closer to invasion.
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