Jeremiah 36:10-25

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁰ Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll in the House of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people. This was at the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan, the secretary, which was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the House of the Lord.

¹¹ When Micaiah son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the Lord from the scroll, ¹² he went into the secretary’s room in the king’s palace. All the officials happened to be sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Akbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. ¹³ Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people. ¹⁴ Then all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to tell Baruch, “Bring the scroll you have read in the hearing of the people, and come here.”

So Baruch son of Neriah brought the scroll in his hand and went to them. ¹⁵ They said, “Please sit down and read it to us.” So Baruch read it to them.

¹⁶ When they had heard everything, they turned to one another in fear. They said to Baruch, “We have to report all of these things to the king.” ¹⁷ They asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you come to write all of this? Did Jeremiah dictate this to you?”

¹⁸ Baruch answered, “He dictated^[a] all of these things to me, and I wrote them with ink on the scroll.”

¹⁹ Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go and hide. Do not let anyone know where you are.”

²⁰ They put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, and then they went to the king in the court. They repeated all of these words to the king. ²¹ Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. After he took it from the room of Elishama the secretary, Jehudi read it to the king in the hearing of all the officials who stood beside the king. ²² Now the king was sitting in the winter house (it was the ninth month),^[b] and there was a metal heating pan with a fire of burning coals in front of him. ²³ Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king would cut it off with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire until the entire scroll was burned up in the fire. ²⁴ Neither the king nor his attendants who heard all these words were afraid. They did not tear their clothing. ²⁵ Even when Elnathan and Delaiah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.