17. And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words from his mouth?
18. And Baruch said unto them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19. And the princes said unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; that none may know where ye are.
20. And they went in unto the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
21. And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he fetched it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.
22. Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month, and with the fire-pan burning before him.
23. And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
24. And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25. Moreover, Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.