9. And then in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
10. Then Baruch read aloud from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, the secretary, in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple of Yahweh in the hearing of all the people.
11. When Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of Yahweh from the scroll,
12. he went down to the house of the king, to the chamber of the secretary, and look, all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
13. And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard at the reading aloud of Baruch from the scroll in the hearing of the people.
14. Then all the officials sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “The scroll that you read aloud from in the hearing of the people, take it in your hand and come.” And Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and he came to them.
15. And they said to him, “Sit please and read it aloud in our hearing.” So Baruch read aloud in their hearing.
16. And then, the moment of their hearing all the words, they turned to one another in alarm and they said to Baruch, “We must certainly report all these words to the king!”
17. Then they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us please, how did you write all these words, from his mouth?”
18. And Baruch said to them, “From his mouth. He dictated to me all these words and I was writing on the scroll with the ink.”
19. Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and let not a man know where you are.”
20. And they went to the king, to the courtyard, and they put the scroll for safe-keeping in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words in the hearing of the king.
21. Then the king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and Jehudi read it aloud in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the officials who stood next to the king.
22. Now the king was sitting in the quarters of the winter in the ninth month, and a fire-pot was burning before him.