“Then they asked Baruch.
‘Tell us now!
How did you write
All these words?
Was it at his dictation?’
Baruch answered them.
‘He dictated
All these words to me.
I wrote them
With ink on the scroll.’
Then the officials said
To Baruch.
‘Go!
Hide!
You!
As well as Jeremiah!
Let no one know
Where you are.’”
These royal officials interrogated Baruch. They wanted to know if he wrote this himself or had someone dictated it to him. Baruch answered that Jeremiah had dictated the words to him. He wrote them down on the scroll with ink. Then the officials told Baruch to hide, both he and Jeremiah, so that no one would know where they were. They thought that the king might have an adverse reaction to this news.
