^{21 Ref} So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.

^{22 Ref} Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.

^{23 Ref} It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

^{24 Ref} They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

^{25 Ref} Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.

^{26 Ref} The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.