Jeremiah 36:20-29

New International Version

²⁰ After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him. ²¹ The king sent Jehudi^(A) to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king^(B) and all the officials standing beside him. ²² It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment,^(C) with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him. ²³ Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll,^(D) the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.^{(E) 24} The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear,^(F) nor did they tear their clothes.^{(G) 25} Even though Elnathan, Delaiah^(H) and Gemariah^(I) urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶ Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest^(J) Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden^(K) them.

²⁷ After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation,^(L) the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ²⁸ “Take another scroll^(M) and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up. ²⁹ Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned that scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it^(N) both man and beast?”^(O)