13. Micaiah reported to them all that he had heard Baruch read from his scroll in the hearing of the people.
14. The princes immediately sent Jehudi, son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to Baruch with the order: “The scroll you read in the hearing of the people—bring it with you and come.” Scroll in hand, Baruch, son of Neriah, went to them.
15. “Sit down,” they said to him, “and read it in our hearing.” Baruch read it in their hearing,
16. and when they had heard all its words, they turned to each other in alarm and said to Baruch, “We have to tell the king all these things.”
17. Then they asked Baruch: “Tell us, please, how did you come to write down all these words? Was it at his dictation?”
18. “Yes, he would dictate all these words to me,” Baruch answered them, “while I wrote them down with ink in the scroll.”
19. The princes said to Baruch, “Go into hiding, you and Jeremiah; do not let anyone know where you are.”
20. They went in to the king, into the courtyard; they had deposited the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. When they told the king everything that had happened,
21. the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the scribe, and read it to the king and to all the princes who were attending the king.
22. Now the king was sitting in his winter house, since it was the ninth month, and a fire was burning in the brazier before him.
23. Each time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, he would cut off the piece with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire in the brazier.
24. As they were listening to all these words the king and all his officials did not become alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.
25. And though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
26. He commanded Jerahmeel, a royal prince, and Seraiah, son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch, the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden them away.
27. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king burned the scroll and the words Jeremiah had dictated to Baruch:
28. Take another scroll, and write on it all the words in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, burned.
29. And against Jehoiakim, king of Judah, say this: Thus says the Lord: You are the one who burned that scroll, saying, “Why did you write on it: Babylon’s king shall surely come and ravage this land, emptying it of every living thing”?