1 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,
*Jeremiah told his assistant Baruch, who wrote these messages in a book as instructed by Jeremiah, during the beginning of King Jehoiakim's rule in Judah, which was in the fourth year of his reign.