Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;
Parallel translations
- WEB Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.
- KJV And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
- NKJV And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am confined, I cannot go into the house of the Lord.
- NASB Jeremiah then commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord.
- NLT Then Jeremiah said to Baruch, “I am a prisoner here and unable to go to the Temple.
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Quick answer
Jeremiah, barred from the temple, sends Baruch in his place. Obstacles do not stop the proclamation of God's word.
Overview
Being restricted, likely banned from the temple due to his unpopular message, Jeremiah commissions Baruch to read the scroll publicly. The prophet finds a way for God's word to be heard despite personal hindrance. This shows that opposition cannot silence the message God intends to deliver.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Jer 32:2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
- Jer 33:1While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
- 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
- Jer 38:28And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
- 2 Tim 2:9for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
- Jer 37:15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- Jer 40:4But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
- Eph 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.
- Heb 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
- Eph 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...
- Jer 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- Jer 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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