Jeremiah 36:20-26

New American Standard Bible 1995

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 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 ^(C)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 ^(D)winter house in the ^(E)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 ^(F)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 ^(G)not afraid, nor did they ^(H)rend their garments. ²⁵ Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah ^(I)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 ^(J)seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the ^(K)Lord hid them.