surrounding Judah. III. THE TIME OF WRITING THE BOOK In Jer. 36:32 we are told that Baruch, in 605 B.C. (see 36:1) wrote in a scroll, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which King Jehoiakim had burned, plus many other like words. No doubt this new scroll written by Baruch, Jeremiah’s secretary, recorded the events and messages of Jeremiah’s ministry from its beginning in 626 B.C. to the year the scroll was written, 605 B.C. Also, without doubt this new scroll became the nucleus
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