Baruch 1:1-10

1 This book was written by Baruch son of Neraiah, grandson of Mahseiah, and a descendant of Zedekiah, Hasadiah, and Hilkiah. It was written in Babylon 1
2 on the seventh day of the month [a] in the fifth year after the Babylonians captured Jerusalem and burned it down.
3 Baruch read the book aloud to Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and to all the people who lived in Babylon by the Sud River. Everyone came to hear it read - nobles, children of royal families, elders, in fact, all the people, no matter what their status. 2
5 When the book was read, everyone cried, fasted, and prayed to the Lord.
6 Then they all gave as much money as they could,
7 and the collection was sent to Jerusalem to Jehoiakim the High Priest, son of Hilkiah and grandson of Shallum, and to the other priests and to all the people who were with him in Jerusalem.
8 On the tenth day of the month of Sivan, Baruch took the sacred utensils which had been carried away from the Temple and returned them to Judah. These were the silver utensils which Zedekiah son of King Josiah of Judah had ordered made
9 after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had deported Jehoiachin, the rulers, the skilled workers, [b] the nobles, and the common people and had taken them from Jerusalem to Babylon.
10 The people wrote: Please use the money we are sending you to buy animals for the burnt offerings and the sin offerings, to buy incense, and to provide the grain offerings. Offer them on the altar of the Lord our God,

Cross References 2

  • 1. 1.1Jeremiah 36.4.
  • 2. 1.3, 4 2 Kings 24.8-17.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. the month: [The month is probably the fifth month of the Hebrew calendar (see 2 K 25.8; Jr 52.12).]
  • [b]. skilled workers; [Greek] prisoners.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.