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Jeremiah 36

8 Then Baruch the son of Neriah did all that the prophet Jeremiah had told him; he read the words of the Eternal from the scroll within the temple. 9 For when all the citizens of Jerusalem and all who came in to Jerusalem from the country towns of Judah were summoned to a fast before the Eternal in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, 10 Baruch read aloud Jeremiah’s message in the scroll to all the people, from the window of the side-room belonging to Gemariah the son of the secretary Shaphan, which was inside the upper court at the entrance to the new gate of the temple.

11 Now when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the Eternal read from the scroll, 12 he walked down to the palace, where he found all the authorities seated in the secretary’s room--Elishama the secretary, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the others. 13 After Micaiah had told them all the words that he had heard Baruch read aloud from the scroll to the people, 14 the authorities all sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Kushi, to tell Baruch to bring the scroll from which he had been reading aloud to the people. 15 When Baruch appeared, scroll in hand, they told him to sit down and read it aloud. So Baruch read it to them. 16 When they had heard it all, they turned to one another in alarm, whispering, “We must inform the king of all this.” 17 They asked Baruch, “How did you come to write all this?” 18 Baruch answered “Jeremiah dictated it all to me, and I wrote it down in ink upon the scroll.” 19 So the authorities said to Baruch, “Go into hiding, you and Jeremiah; let no man know where you are.”

20 Then, after depositing the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king’s private cabinet and told the king everything. 21 The king sent Jehudi for the scroll; and when he brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary, he read it aloud to the king and all the authorities in attendance. 22 The king was in his winter apartments, with a brazier burning in front of him. 23 Whenever Jehudi read three or four leaves, the king would slash them off with a penknife and fling them into the fire burning upon the brazier, till the whole of the scroll was consumed in the fire burning upon the brazier. 24 There was no sense of horror, no tearing of clothes, on the part of the king or of any of his ministers who heard all these words, 25 although Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah besought the king not to burn the scroll. However, he would not listen to them; 26 he ordered the royal prince Jerahmeel, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to fetch Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Eternal hid them safe.

27 After the king had burned the scroll containing the words which Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, this word of the Eternal came to Jeremiah: 28 “Take once more another scroll, and write upon it all the words that were on the former scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned. 29 And give Jehoiakim king of Judah this message from the Eternal: ‘You burned the scroll and asked me why I had written in it that the king of Babylon was coming to destroy this land and clear it of man and beast. 30 Well, here is what the Eternal has to say about Jehoiakim king of Judah: No descendant of his shall ever sit upon the throne of David, and his own corpse shall be flung out, exposed to the day’s heat and to the frost by night. 31 I will punish him, his offspring, and his ministers, for their evil doing; I will bring upon them and the citizens of Jerusalem all the miseries with which I have threatened them in vain.’ ” 32 So Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote upon it, to Jeremiah’s dictation, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned, besides many other words of the same nature.