16. And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon one another with astonishment, and they said to Baruch: We must tell the king all these words.
17. And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write all these words from his mouth.
18. And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced all these words as if he were reading to me: and I wrote in a volume with ink.
19. And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and hide thee, both thou and Jeremias, and let no man know where you are.
20. And they went in to the king into the court: but they laid up the volume in the chamber of Elisama the scribe: and they told all the words in the hearing of the king.
21. And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume: who bringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read it in the hearing of the king, and of all the princes that stood about the king.
22. Now the king sat in the winter house, In the ninth month: and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.
23. And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the penknife, and he cast it into the Are, that was upon the hearth, till all the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth.
24. And the king and all his servants that heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.
25. But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to the king, not to burn the book: and he heard them not.