Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 36:6

6 Therefore go thou and read in the roll which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORDS house upon the fasting day : and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah, that come out of their Cities.

We do not read that Ieremiah was a prisoner in the fourth year of Iehoiachim, and therefore it is very incertainly guested in what sense he here saith he was shut up, some think Iehoiachim had imprisoned him, or at least restrained him to his house, tho we do not read of it. Others think he restrained himself, but in what sense he was shut up, is not certain, that he was so, is certain, he knew that God had not commanded his prophecies to be written for any other end, but that the people might have them recalled to their memories, he being not in a capacity himself at present to speak any thing to the people in so publick a place, sendeth Baruch to do it in his stead, chusing for it a day of publick Fast, not the day of the yearly fast mentioned, Levit. 23.2[illegible: 1 letter]. But on a fast day (of which we shall read more, ver. 9.) proclaimed by Ieho[illegible: 1 letter]achim, probably to avert the vengeance hanging over them from the Chaldaeans, or rather from the drought. It was undoubtedly because of the concourse of people which the Prophet knew would that day be in the Temple that he chose that day, when some would be present from all parts of Iudah.