And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
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Gill's Exposition
And they asked Baruch,.... The following question, which may seem at first sight an odd, needless, and trifling one, as some have called it:
saying, tell us now, how didst thou write all these words…
Barnes' Notes
The scroll might have been drawn up by Baruch from memoranda of his own without the prophet’s direct authority. The princes therefore did not ask from curiosity, but to obtain necessary information.
It should seem that Baruch had been frequently reading out of the book, to all companies that would give him the hearing, before the most solemn reading of it altogether which is here spoken of; for…
Cambridge Bible
How didst thou write They desired to know how far the words might be Baruch's own, so as to be able to state to the king to what extent, if any, the prophet's amanuensis was responsible.
at his mouth…