Jeremiah 36:15
 Jeremiah 36:15 
New International Version (©2011)
They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Sit down and read the scroll to us," the officials said, and Baruch did as they requested.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And they said to him, “Sit down and read it.” So Baruch read it to them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They said to him, "Sit down and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They told him, "Please sit down and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.

NET Bible (©2006)
They said to him, "Please sit down and read it to us." So Baruch sat down and read it to them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They said to Baruch, "Please sit down, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

American King James Version
And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

American Standard Version
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said to him: Sit down and read these things in our hearing. And Baruch read in their hearing.

Darby Bible Translation
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. And Baruch read it in their ears.

English Revised Version
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

World English Bible
They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

Young's Literal Translation
and they say unto him, 'Sit down, we pray thee, and read it in our ears,' and Baruch readeth in their ears,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

36:9-19 Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those, who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to the power of it. The princes patiently attended the reading of the whole book. They were in great fear. But even those who are convinced to the truth and importance of what they hear, and are disposed to favour those who preach it, often have difficulties and reserves about their safety, interest, or preferment, so that they do not act according to their convictions, and try to get rid of what they find troublesome.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - Sit down now. The princes evidently recognize Baruch as belonging to a family of distinction (see on ver. 4); and from vers. 19, 25 we may infer that they were favourably inclined beth to Baruch and to his master (comp. ch. 26.).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they said unto him, sit down now,.... Or, "pray sit down" (q); they received him very courteously, and treated him with great humanity, and showed much respect to him, in beseeching him to sit down by them:

and read it in our ears; as he had done in the ears of the people, with an audible voice, clearly and distinctly, that they might be able to hear it, so as to understand it:

so Baruch read it in their ears; without any fear or dread, though in the king's palace, and before an assembly of princes; nor did he excuse himself on account of weariness, having just read it to the people; or upbraid the princes with not being in the temple, where they might have heard it.

(q) "sede quaeso", Vatablus, Schmidt.


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Jeremiah's Scroll Read in the King's House
14Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the roll wherein you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came to them. 15And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. 16Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. …

Jeremiah 36:21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all the officials standing beside him.
Jeremiah 36:16 When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."