The words Jeremiah had spoken hadn't caused the people to change, so perhaps a scroll written would? God is giving another way for people to hear his message, but what I see is that even when hearing this, the people didn't change. The elders were afraid, but other than telling Baruch and Jeremiah to hide (which was good), there is nothing that says they repented of their ways. They just took it to the king. My thought on this is that if someone's heart is turned against God, it doesn't matter what God does; he could speak from the mountain his commands (He did at Sinai), but the rebellious will not listen. As the old saying goes, "No one is so blind as the one who refuses to see."
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