24:036:012 Then he went down into the king’s
house, into the scribe’s
chamber:
and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the
scribe,
and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son
of
Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah
the
son
of Hananiah, and all the princes.
24:036:013 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the
words that he had
heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
24:036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the
son of Nethaniah,
the
son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying,
Take
in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the
ears
of
the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah
took the
roll
in his hand, and came unto them.
24:036:015 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and
read it in our ears.
So
Baruch read it in their ears.
24:036:016 Now it came to pass, when they had heard
all the words, they
were
afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We
will
surely
tell the king of all these words.
24:036:017 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us
now, How didst thou
write
all these words at his mouth?
24:036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced
all these words unto
me
with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
24:036:019 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go,
hide thee, thou and
Jeremiah;
and let no man know where ye be.
24:036:020 And they went in to the king into the court,
but they laid up
the
roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told
all
the
words in the ears of the king.
24:036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll:
and he took it out
of
Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi
read it in the
ears
of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which
stood
beside the king.
24:036:022 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in
the ninth month: and
there
was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
24:036:023 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had
read three or four
leaves,
he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire
that
was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed
in the
fire
that was on the hearth.
24:036:024 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their
garments, neither the
king,
nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
24:036:025 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah
had made
intercession
to the king that he would not burn the roll: but
he
would not hear them.


