The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
After the completion of the prophecies and histories appertaining to the Jewish people and kings, Jeremiah subjoins one referring to an individual, Baruch, even as there are subjoined to the letters of Paul addressed to churches, letters to individuals, some of which were prior in date to the former. Afterward follow the prophecies referring to other nations, closing the (Grotius). The date of the events here told is eighteen years before the taking of the city: this chapter in point of time follows Jeremiah 36:1-32. However, it may have been subsequent to the suspicion thrown on Baruch by Azariah and Johanan (Jeremiah 43:3), which caused his despondency; and so its position here may be its right place. Baruch seems to have been regularly employed by Jeremiah to commit his prophecies to writing (Jeremiah 36:1; Jeremiah 36:4; Jeremiah 36:32).
These words - his prophecies, from the 13th year of Josiah to the 4th year of Jehoiakim.