Jeremiah 36:12–25

¹²And he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there—^aElishama the scribe, and ^bDelaiah the son of Shemaiah, and ^cElnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

¹³And Micaiah ^adeclared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book in the hearing of the people.

¹⁴Then all the officials sent ^aJehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah ^btook the scroll in his hand and went to them.

¹⁵And they said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch ^aread it in their hearing.

¹⁶Now it happened that when they heard all the words, they turned in ^adread one to another and said to Baruch, “We will surely ^bdeclare all these words to the king.”

¹⁷And they asked Baruch, saying, “Declare to us, please, ^ahow did you write all these words? Was it ¹at his dictation?”

¹⁸Then Baruch said to them, “He ^adictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.”

¹⁹Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, ^ahide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”

The Scroll Is Burned

²⁰So they went to the ^aking in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of ^bElishama the scribe, and they declared all the words in the hearing of the king.

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

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

²³And it happened that 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 ¹was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

²⁴Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were ^anot in dread, nor did they ^btear their garments.

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