Baruch 1:1-9

Writing from Babylon

1 These are the words of the scroll that Baruch—son of Neriah son of Mahseiah son of Zedekiah son of Hasadiah son of Hilkiah—wrote in Babylon

2 in the fifth year on the seventh day of the month at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it down.

3 Baruch read the words of this scroll aloud to Judah's King Jeconiah, Jehoiakim's son, and to all the people who came to hear the reading of the scroll,

4 and to the powerful ones, the rulers' sons, the elders, and all the people, from the least important to the greatest, and to all the ones who lived in Babylon by the Sud River.

5 They wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

6 They collected silver from everyone able to give, and

7 they sent it to Jerusalem to the priest Jehoiakim, Hilkiah's son, Shallum's grandson, and to the other priests, and to all the people who were with Jehoiakim in Jerusalem.

8 During the same time, on the tenth day of Sivan,^[a] Baruch took the equipment from the Lord's house that had been removed from the temple—the silver equipment that Judah's King Zedekiah, Josiah's son, had made—to return it to Judah. (

9 This occurred after Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar removed Jeconiah, the leading officials, the prisoners, the powerful ones, and the land's people from Jerusalem, and brought them^[b] to Babylon.)