The Scroll Is Burned

²⁰ So they came to the ^(A)king in the courtyard, 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 were standing 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 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 of 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 did ^(G)not tremble in fear, nor did they ^(H)tear their garments. ²⁵ Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah ^(I)urged 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.