11 When Mikayah (son of Gemaryah son of Shafan) heard all Yahweh’s messages from the scroll, 12 he went down to to the secretary’s room in the palace, and wow, all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Shemayah’s son Delayah, Akbor’s son Elnatan, Shafan’s son Gemaryah, and Hananyah’s son Tsidkiyah, along with all the other officials. 13 When Mikayah reported to them all the messages that he’d heard Baruk read aloud for the people to hear, 14 the officials sent Yehudi (son of Netanyah son of Shelemyah son of Kushi) to Baruk. Yehudi ordered Baruk, “Take the scroll in your hand, the scroll from which you were reading in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Neriyah’s son Baruk took the scroll and went to the officials 15 where they told him to sit down and read it to them, so Baruk read out the messages. 16 When they heard it all, they were afraid and decided together that they needed to report it all to the king, 17 and they asked Baruk, “How come you wrote down all these messages from Yirmeyah?”

18 “He dictated them to me,” he replied, “and I just wrote them down on the scroll.”

19 Then the officials told Baruk, “Go and hide, and Yirmeyah as well. Don’t let anyone know where you two are.”