rsv Jeremiah:36:21-26
rsv@Jeremiah:36:21 @ Then the king sent Jehu'di to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Eli'shama the secretary; and Jehu'di read it to the king and all the princes who stood beside the king.
rsv@Jeremiah:36:22 @ It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.
rsv@Jeremiah:36:23 @ As Jehu'di read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
rsv@Jeremiah:36:24 @ Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments.
rsv@Jeremiah:36:25 @ Even when Elna'than and Delai'ah and Gemari'ah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
rsv@Jeremiah:36:26 @ And the king commanded Jerah'meel the king's son and Serai'ah the son of Az'ri-el and Shelemi'ah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.