roll. a writing scroll. Hebrew. megillah. Occurs twenty-one times (fourteen times in this chapter. Psalms 40:7; Ezekiel 2:9; Ezekiel 3:1; Ezekiel 3:2; Ezekiel 3:3.Zechariah 5:1; Zechariah 5:2). The name given to the five books called the megilloth (Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther).
words. Plural Compare "word" (singular) (Jeremiah 36:1).
Israel. These words were now to be written because Israel had been already in dispersion 114 years, and could not be spoken, as they were when Judah alone was concerned. Compare Jeremiah 25:2.
from the days of Josiah. See Jeremiah 1:1-3. Not only what is recorded in Jeremiah 25, but what Jehovah had spoken to him for the past twenty-three years.