21. the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the scribe, and read it to the king and to all the princes who were attending the king.
22. Now the king was sitting in his winter house, since it was the ninth month, and a fire was burning in the brazier before him.
23. Each time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, he would cut off the piece with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire in the brazier.
24. As they were listening to all these words the king and all his officials did not become alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.
25. And though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
26. He commanded Jerahmeel, a royal prince, and Seraiah, son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch, the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden them away.
27. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king burned the scroll and the words Jeremiah had dictated to Baruch:
28. Take another scroll, and write on it all the words in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, burned.
29. And against Jehoiakim, king of Judah, say this: Thus says the Lord: You are the one who burned that scroll, saying, “Why did you write on it: Babylon’s king shall surely come and ravage this land, emptying it of every living thing”?
30. The Lord now says of Jehoiakim, king of Judah: No descendant of his shall sit on David’s throne; his corpse shall be thrown out, exposed to heat by day, frost by night.
31. I will punish him and his descendants and his officials for their wickedness; upon them, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the people of Judah I will bring all the evil threats to which they did not listen.
32. Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to his scribe, Baruch, son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words contained in the scroll which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, had burned in the fire, adding many words like them.