The Scroll Is Burned

20 So they went to the aking in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of aElishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to the king.

21 Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi aread it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king.

22 Now the king was sitting in the awinter house in the bninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.

23 When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and athrew it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

24 Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were anot afraid, nor did they brend their garments.

25 Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah apleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to aseize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the bLord hid them.