translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JER

label: NET study note

text: It is unclear whether this refers to the first scroll ( 36:4 ) or the second ( 36:32 ). Perhaps from the reactions of Baruch this refers to the second scroll which was written after he had seen how the leaders had responded to the first ( 36:19 ). Baruch was from a well-placed family; his grandfather, Mahseiah ( 32:12 ) had been governor of Jerusalem under Josiah ( 2 Chr 34:8 ) and his brother was a high-ranking official in Zedekiah’s court ( Jer 51:59 ). He himself appears to have had some personal aspirations that he could see were being or going to be jeopardized (v. 5 ). The passage is both a rebuke to Baruch and an encouragement that his life will be spared wherever he goes. This latter promise is perhaps the reason that the passage is placed where it is, i.e., after the seemingly universal threat of destruction of all who have gone to Egypt in .


text: From the context it appears that Baruch was feeling sorry for himself (v. 5 ) as well as feeling anguish for the suffering that the nation would need to undergo according to the predictions of Jeremiah that he was writing down.


text: Compare Jer 25:31, 33 . The reference here to universal judgment also forms a nice transition to the judgments on the nations that follow in Jer 46-51 which may be another reason for the placement of this chapter here, out of its normal chronological order (see also the study note on v. 1 ).