22 Now it was the ninth month, and the king was staying in the winterized part of the palace with the firepot burning near him.
23 And whenever Jehudi read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot until the whole scroll was burned up.
24 Neither the king nor any of his attendants who heard all these words were alarmed or tore their clothes.
25 Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, but he wouldn’t listen to them.
26 The king commanded Jerahmeel, the king’s son, along with Seraiah, Azriel’s son, and Shelemiah, Abdeel’s son, to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them.
27 The Lord’s word came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll containing the words written by Baruch at Jeremiah’s dictation:
28 Get another scroll and write in it all the words that were in the first scroll that Judah’s King Jehoiakim burned.