17. And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?"
18. Then Baruch said to them, "He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book."
19. Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are."
20. So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to the king.
21. Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king.
22. Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.
23. When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe's knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
24. Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.
25. Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
26. And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, 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 scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying,
28. "Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.