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Thursday, November 20th, 2025
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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THE MESSAGE

Jeremiah 36:15

The officials told him, "Sit down. Read it to us, please." Baruch read it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Baruch;   Jeremiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gemariah;   Jehoiakim;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gemariah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baruch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elishama;   Elnathan;   Jehudi;   Jeremiah;   Neriah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Baruch;   Government;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jehoiakim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baruch ;   Jehoiakim ;   Jehudi ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Baruch;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They said to him, “Sit down and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
Hebrew Names Version
They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Barukh read it in their ears.
King James Version
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
English Standard Version
And they said to him, "Sit down and read it." So Baruch read it to them.
New American Standard Bible
And they said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.
New Century Version
Then the officers said to Baruch, "Please sit down and read the scroll to us." So Baruch read the scroll to them.
Amplified Bible
And they said to him, "Sit down now and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.
World English Bible
They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they saide vnto him, Sit downe now, and reade it, that we may heare. So Baruch read it in their audience.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.
Berean Standard Bible
"Please sit down," they said, "and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.
Contemporary English Version
the officials said, "Please sit down and read it to us," which he did.
Complete Jewish Bible
They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." Barukh read it to them.
Darby Translation
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. And Baruch read [it] in their ears.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the officials said to Baruch, "Sit down and read the scroll to us." So Baruch read the scroll to them.
George Lamsa Translation
And the princes said to him, Sit down now and read it in our presence; so Baruch read it in their presence.
Good News Translation
"Sit down," they said, "and read the scroll to us." So Baruch did.
Lexham English Bible
And they said to him, "Sit please and read it aloud in our hearing." So Baruch read aloud in their hearing.
Literal Translation
And they said to him, Sit down now and read it in our ears. So Baruch read in their ears.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they sayde vnto him: Syt downe, and rede the boke, yt we maye heare also. So Baruch red, yt they might heare.
American Standard Version
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
Bible in Basic English
Then they said to him, Be seated now, and give us a reading from it. So Baruch did so, reading it to them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they said unto him: 'Sit down now, and read it in our ears.' So Baruch read it in their ears.
King James Version (1611)
And they sayde vnto him, Sit downe now and read it in our eares. So Baruch read it in their eares.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they sayd vnto him: Sit downe and reade the booke, that we may heare also: So Baruch read that they might heare.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
whereas ye said, The Lord has appointed for us prophets in Babylon:
English Revised Version
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei seiden to hym, Sitte thou, and rede these thingis in oure eeris; and Baruc redde in the eeris of hem.
Update Bible Version
And they said to 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.
New English Translation
They said to him, "Please sit down and read it to us." So Baruch sat down and read it to them.
New King James Version
And they said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.
New Living Translation
"Sit down and read the scroll to us," the officials said, and Baruch did as they requested.
New Life Bible
They told him, "Sit down and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.
New Revised Standard
And they said to him, "Sit down and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said they unto him, Sit down we pray thee 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.
Revised Standard Version
And they said to him, "Sit down and read it." So Baruch read it to them.
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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.

Contextual Overview

9 It came about in December of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah that all the people of Jerusalem, along with all the people from the Judean villages, were there in Jerusalem to observe a fast to God . 10 Baruch took the scroll to the Temple and read out publicly the words of Jeremiah. He read from the meeting room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary of state, which was in the upper court right next to the New Gate of God 's Temple. Everyone could hear him. 11The moment Micaiah the son of Gemariah heard what was being read from the scroll— God 's Message!—he went straight to the palace and to the chambers of the secretary of state where all the government officials were holding a meeting: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other government officials. 13 Micaiah reported everything he had heard Baruch read from the scroll as the officials listened. 14 Immediately they dispatched Jehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Semaiah, son of Cushi, to Baruch, ordering him, "Take the scroll that you have read to the people and bring it here." So Baruch went and retrieved the scroll. 15 The officials told him, "Sit down. Read it to us, please." Baruch read it. 16 When they had heard it all, they were upset. They talked it over. "We've got to tell the king all this." 17 They asked Baruch, "Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Was it at Jeremiah's dictation?" 18 Baruch said, "That's right. Every word right from his own mouth. And I wrote it down, word for word, with pen and ink." 19 The government officials told Baruch, "You need to get out of here. Go into hiding, you and Jeremiah. Don't let anyone know where you are!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and read: Jeremiah 36:21

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:10 - Shaphan

Cross-References

Genesis 36:4
Adah gave Esau Eliphaz; Basemath had Reuel;
Genesis 36:11
The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. (Eliphaz also had a concubine Timna, who had Amalek.) These are the grandsons of Esau's wife Adah.
Genesis 36:18
These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: the chieftains Jeush, Jalam, and Korah—chieftains born of Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.
Job 2:11
Three of Job's friends heard of all the trouble that had fallen on him. Each traveled from his own country—Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuhah, Zophar from Naamath—and went together to Job to keep him company and comfort him. When they first caught sight of him, they couldn't believe what they saw—they hardly recognized him! They cried out in lament, ripped their robes, and dumped dirt on their heads as a sign of their grief. Then they sat with him on the ground. Seven days and nights they sat there without saying a word. They could see how rotten he felt, how deeply he was suffering.
Psalms 37:35
I saw Wicked bloated like a toad, croaking pretentious nonsense. The next time I looked there was nothing— a punctured bladder, vapid and limp.
Jeremiah 49:7
The Message of God -of-the-Angel-Armies on Edom: "Is there nobody wise left in famous Teman? no one with a sense of reality? Has their wisdom gone wormy and rotten? Run for your lives! Get out while you can! Find a good place to hide, you who live in Dedan! I'm bringing doom to Esau. It's time to settle accounts. When harvesters work your fields, don't they leave gleanings? When burglars break into your house, don't they take only what they want? But I'll strip Esau clean. I'll search out every nook and cranny. I'll destroy everything connected with him, children and relatives and neighbors. There'll be no one left who will be able to say, ‘I'll take care of your orphans. Your widows can depend on me.'"
Jeremiah 49:20
So, listen to this plan that God has worked out against Edom, the blueprint of what he's prepared for those who live in Teman: "Believe it or not, the young, the vulnerable— mere lambs and kids—will be dragged off. Believe it or not, the flock in shock, helpless to help, will watch it happen. The very earth will shudder because of their cries, cries of anguish heard at the distant Red Sea. Look! An eagle soars, swoops down, spreads its wings over Bozrah. Brave warriors will double up in pain, helpless to fight, like a woman giving birth to a baby."
Habakkuk 3:3
God's on his way again, retracing the old salvation route, Coming up from the south through Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Skies are blazing with his splendor, his praises sounding through the earth, His cloud-brightness like dawn, exploding, spreading, forked-lightning shooting from his hand— what power hidden in that fist! Plague marches before him, pestilence at his heels! He stops. He shakes Earth. He looks around. Nations tremble. The age-old mountains fall to pieces; ancient hills collapse like a spent balloon. The paths God takes are older than the oldest mountains and hills. I saw everyone worried, in a panic: Old wilderness adversaries, Cushan and Midian, were terrified, hoping he wouldn't notice them.

Gill's Notes on the 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 שב נא "sede quaeso", Vatablus, Schmidt.


 
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