Jeremiah 36:20-26

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁰ They put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, and then they went to the king in the court. They repeated all of these words to the king. ²¹ Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. After he took it from the room of Elishama the secretary, Jehudi read it to the king in the hearing of all the officials who stood beside the king. ²² Now the king was sitting in the winter house (it was the ninth month),^[a] and there was a metal heating pan with a fire of burning coals in front of him. ²³ Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king would cut it off with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire until the entire scroll was burned up in the fire. ²⁴ Neither the king nor his attendants who heard all these words were afraid. They did not tear their clothing. ²⁵ Even when Elnathan and Delaiah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶ Instead, the king commanded Jerahme’el the king’s son, along with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abde’el, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord hid them.