Jeremiah 36:20

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They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king.

Context

17They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”

18Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”

19Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”

20They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king.

21So the king sent Jehudi) to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.

22Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month; and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.

23When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

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