Jeremiah 36:19-26 - Jehoiakim Burns The Scroll

¹⁹ Then said the princes unto Baruch, "Go thy way, and hide thee with Jeremiah, so that no man know where ye be." ²⁰ And they went in to the king to the court. but they kept the book in the chamber of Elishama the Scribe, and told the king all the words that he might hear. ²¹ So the king sent Jehudi to fetch him the book, which he brought out of Elishama the Scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it, that the king and all the princes, which were about him might hear. ²² Now the king sat in the winter house, for it was in the ninth Month, and there was a good fire before him. ²³ And when Jehudi had read three or four leaves thereof, he cut the book in pieces with a pen knife, and cast it into the fire upon the hearth, until the book was all burnt in the fire upon the hearth. ²⁴ Yet no man was abashed thereof, or rent his clothes: neither the king himself, nor his servants, though they heard all these words. ²⁵ Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah besought the king, that he would not burn the book: notwithstanding the king would not hear them, ²⁶ but commanded Jerahmeel the son of Amalek, and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to lay hands on Baruch the Scribe, and upon Jeremiah the Prophet: but the LORD kept them out of sight.