The Scroll Is Burned

²⁰ So they went to the ^(A)king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of ^(B)Elishama the scribe, and they declared all the words in the hearing of 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 ^(C)read it in the hearing of the king as well as in the hearing of all the officials who stood beside the king. ²² Now the king was sitting in the ^(D)winter house in the ^(E)ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. ²³ And it happened that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and ^(F)threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll ^[a]was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. ²⁴ Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were ^(G)not in dread, nor did they ^(H)tear their garments. ²⁵ Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah ^(I)interceded 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 ^(J)take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but ^(K)Yahweh hid them.