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.