23. As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the fire in the fireplace. He did this until the whole scroll was burned up.
24. The king and all his attendants didn’t show any fear or tear their clothes in fear when they heard everything being read.
25. Even when Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he refused to listen to them.
26. The king commanded Jerahmeel (the king’s son), Seraiah (son of Azriel), and Shelemiah (son of Abdeel) to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord had hidden Baruch and Jeremiah.
27. After the king burned up the scroll that Baruch had written and that Jeremiah had dictated, the Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said,