^{12 Ref} Went down to the king's house, to the scribe's room: and all the rulers were seated there, Elishama the scribe 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 rulers.

^{13 Ref} Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.

^{14 Ref} So all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the book from which you have been reading to the people and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the book in his hand and came down to them.

¹⁵ Then they said to him, Be seated now, and give us a reading from it. So Baruch did so, reading it to them.

^{16 Ref} Now it came about that, after hearing all the words, they said to one another in fear, We will certainly give the king an account of all these words.