Jeremiah 36:16-26

16When they had heard all the words, they turned in 1fear one to another. And they said to Baruch, “We will certainly 2report all these words to the king.” 17Then they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, 3how did you write all these words? Was it 4at Jeremiah’s dictation?” 18And 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 came to the 7king in the courtyard, 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 were standing 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. 23And when 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 of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. 24Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words did 13not tremble in fear, nor did they 14tear their garments. 25Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah 15urged 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.