17. And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
18. Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19. Then the princes said unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
20. And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and told all the words in the ears of the king.
21. So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read in it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22. Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
23. And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24. Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his slaves that heard all these words.
25. Nevertheless when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah made intercession to the king that he not burn the roll; he would not hear them.
26. But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the Lord hid them.
27. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king burned the roll, the words which Baruch had written at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying:
28. Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.