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Jeremiah 36:17

Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

How didst thou write all these words? - At his mouth? - So the text should be pointed. They wished to know whether he had not copied them, or whether he wrote as Jeremiah prophesied.

Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

The scroll might have been drawn up by Baruch from memoranda of his own without the prophet‘s direct authority. The princes therefore did not ask from curiosity, but to obtain necessary information.

Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those, who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to the power of it. The princes patiently attended the reading of the whole book. They were in great fear. But even those who are convinced to the truth and importance of what they hear, and are disposed to favour those who preach it, often have difficulties and reserves about their safety, interest, or preferment, so that they do not act according to their convictions, and try to get rid of what they find troublesome.