Baruch

Baruch
    n 1: economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)
         [syn: {Baruch}, {Bernard Baruch}, {Bernard Mannes Baruch}]
    2: a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah
    3: an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch [syn: {Baruch}, {Book
       of Baruch}]
    

Baruch
blessed. (1.) The secretary of the prophet Jeremiah (32:12;
36:4). He was of the tribe of Judah (51:59). To him Jeremiah
dictated his prophecies regarding the invasion of the
Babylonians and the Captivity. These he read to the people from
a window in the temple in the fourth year of the reign of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah (Jer. 36). He afterwards read them
before the counsellors of the king at a private interview; and
then to the king himself, who, after hearing a part of the roll,
cut it with a penknife, and threw it into the fire of his winter
parlour, where he was sitting.

  During the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, he was the
keeper of the deed of purchase Jeremiah had made of the
territory of Hanameel (Jer. 32:12). Being accused by his enemies
of favouring the Chaldeans, he was cast, with Jeremiah, into
prison, where he remained till the capture of Jerusalem (B.C.
586). He probably died in Babylon.

  (2.) Neh. 3:20; 10:6; 11:5.
    

Baruch, who is blessed