14. Then all the officials sent Jehudi 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 in the ears of the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.
15. They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our ears.”So Baruch read it in their ears.
16. When they heard all the words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”
17. They also asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words? Was it at his mouth?”
18. Then Baruch answered them, “He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
19. Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no man know where you are.”
20. Then they went to the king in the court, but they laid up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
21. So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the scroll, and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the officials who stood beside the king.
22. Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire burning on the hearth before him.
23. As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24. Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
25. Although Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah entreated the king not to burn the scroll, yet he would not listen to them.
26. But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord hid them.
27. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the book and the words which Baruch had written at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying:
28. Take again another scroll and write in it all the former words that were in the first book, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.