Apocrypha Major ProphetsDeuterocanonical · KJVA

Baruch

Baruch opens with a confession of national sin offered by the exiles in Babylon (1:1–3:8), followed by a beautiful wisdom poem identifying Torah with the Wisdom that God alone bestows (3:9–4:4), and a prophetic word of comfort to a personified Jerusalem (4:5–5:9). Chapter 6 — the Letter of Jeremiah — is an extended polemic warning the exiles against the foolishness of Babylonian idols.

Author
Anonymous (attributed to Baruch, scribe of Jeremiah)

Likely a composite work. The KJVA prints the Letter of Jeremiah as Baruch chapter 6; some traditions treat it as a separate book.

Date Written
c. 200–100 BC
Audience
Jews of the post-exilic and Hellenistic eras reflecting on the exile
Length
6 chapters

Baruch is part of the Apocrypha, so the reader opens in KJVA by default — KJV doesn't include it.

Major Themes

Repentance Wisdom Comfort Exile Anti-idolatry

Cross-references for Baruch aren't available yet

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Baruch is still richly connected to the rest of Scripture — the early church quoted it, later writers built on it, and scholarly cross-reference editions (e.g. the Jerusalem Bible, the Nova Vulgata) catalogue those links. We're tracking the gap and will add Apocrypha cross-references when a permissive open dataset becomes available.

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