Jeremiah 36:12-25

12he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there--1Elishama the scribe, and 2Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and 3Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. 13Micaiah 4declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people. 14Then all the officials sent 5Jehudi 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 to the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah 6took the scroll in his hand and went to them. 15They said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it to us.” So Baruch 7read it to them. 16When they had heard all the words, they turned in 8fear one to another and said to Baruch, “We will surely 9report all these words to the king.” 17And they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, 10how did you write all these words? Was it 11at his dictation?” 18Then Baruch said to them, “He 12dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.” 19Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, 13hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”

20So they went to the 14king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of 15Elishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to 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 16read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king. 22Now the king was sitting in the 17winter house in the 18ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. 23When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and 19threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. 24Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were 20not afraid, nor did they 21rend their garments. 25Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah 22pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.