13 After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll,
13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
13 And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.
13 Micaiah reported everything he had heard Baruch read from the scroll as the officials listened.
13 Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the hearing of the people.
13 When Micaiah told them about the messages Baruch was reading to the people,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 36:13
Commentary on Jeremiah 36:9-19
(Read Jeremiah 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.