Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”
- KJV Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
- NKJV Then the princes said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no one know where you are.”
- NASB Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”
- NLT “You and Jeremiah should both hide,” the officials told Baruch. “Don’t tell anyone where you are!”
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Quick answer
The officials warn Baruch and Jeremiah to hide, foreseeing the king's hostility.
Overview
Anticipating Jehoiakim's anger, the princes urge Baruch and Jeremiah to go into hiding for safety. Their concern reveals both genuine respect for the prophet and fear of the king's wrath against God's messengers. Faithful proclamation of God's truth has always invited danger, as the prophets and later Christ Himself experienced.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Kgs 17:3“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
- 1 Kgs 18:4for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
- Jer 36:26Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
- 1 Kgs 18:10As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.
- Jer 26:20–24Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.
- Amos 7:12And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
- Prov 28:12When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
- 2 Chr 25:15Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
- Luke 13:31At that very hour, some Pharisees came to Jesus and told Him, “Leave this place and get away, because Herod wants to kill You.”
- Acts 5:40At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.
- Acts 23:16–22But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.
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