Jeremiah 36:16-26

16When they had heard all the words, they turned in 1fear one to another and said to Baruch, “We will surely 2report all these words to the king.” 17And they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, 3how did you write all these words? Was it 4at his dictation?” 18Then Baruch said to them, “He 5dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.” 19Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, 6hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”

20So they went to the 7king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of 8Elishama 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 9read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king. 22Now the king was sitting in the 10winter house in the 11ninth 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 12threw 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 13not afraid, nor did they 14rend their garments. 25Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah 15pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. 26And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to 16seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the 17Lord hid them.