23. As soon as Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king cut them off with a small knife and threw them into the fire. He kept doing this until the entire scroll was burnt up.
24. But neither the king nor any of his officials who heard all this was afraid or showed any sign of sorrow.
25. Although Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, he paid no attention to them.
26. Then he ordered Prince Jerahmeel, together with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to arrest me and my secretary Baruch. But the Lord had hidden us.
27. After King Jehoiakim had burnt the scroll that I had dictated to Baruch, the Lord told me
28. to take another scroll and write on it everything that had been on the first one.
29. The Lord told me to say to the king, “You have burnt the scroll, and you have asked Jeremiah why he wrote that the king of Babylonia would come and destroy this land and kill its people and its animals.