Jeremiah 36:12–25

¹²he went down to the secretary’s^g room in the royal palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan^h son of Akbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.^{i 13}After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll, ¹⁴all the officials sent Jehudi^j son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Bring the scroll^k from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the scroll in his hand. ¹⁵They said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it to us.”

So Baruch read it to them. ¹⁶When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear^l and said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.” ¹⁷Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you come to write^m all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it?”

¹⁸“Yes,” Baruch replied, “he dictatedⁿ all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”

¹⁹Then the officials^o said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah, go and hide.^p Don’t let anyone know where you are.”

²⁰After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him. ²¹The king sent Jehudi^q to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king^r and all the officials standing beside him. ²²It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment,^s with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him. ²³Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll,^t the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.^{u 24}The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear,^v nor did they tear their clothes.^{w 25}Even though Elnathan, Delaiah^x and Gemariah^y urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.