¹²Then he went down to the scribe’s room in the king’s palace where all the scribes were sitting. The scribe Elishama, Delaiah (son of Shemaiah), Elnathan (son of Achbor), Gemariah (son of Shaphan), Zedekiah (son of Hananiah), and all the other officials were there. ¹³Micaiah told them everything he heard Baruch read from the scroll publicly. ¹⁴Then all the officials sent Jehudi, who was the son of Nethaniah, the grandson of Shelemiah, and the great-grandson of Cushi, to Baruch. Jehudi said to Baruch, “Bring the scroll that you read publicly, and come with me.” Baruch, son of Neriah, took the scroll and went with him to see the officers. ¹⁵They said to Baruch, “Please sit down, and read it to us.”

So Baruch read it to them. ¹⁶When they heard everything, they turned to each other in terror. They said to Baruch, “We must tell the king everything.” ¹⁷Then they asked Baruch, “Please tell us how you wrote all this. Did Jeremiah dictate it to you?”

¹⁸Baruch answered, “He dictated everything to me, and I wrote it on the scroll in ink.”

¹⁹The officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”

²⁰After they put the scroll in the side room of the scribe Elishama, they went to the king in the courtyard and told him everything. ²¹Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He took the scroll from the side room of the scribe Elishama. Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials standing by the king. ²²It was the ninth month, and the king was in his winter house sitting in front of the fire in the fireplace. ²³As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the fire in the fireplace. He did this until the whole scroll was burned up. ²⁴The king and all his attendants didn’t show any fear or tear their clothes in fear when they heard everything being read. ²⁵Even when Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he refused to listen to them.

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