Hidden from the king

26Then the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh hid them.

27Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll and the words that Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

28Take for yourself another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned.

29And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, you shall say, ‘Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written on it, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will surely come and destroy this land, and cut off from it man and beast’?”’

30Therefore this is what Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body will be thrown out to the heat by day and to the frost by night.

31And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the disaster that I spoke against them, but they did not listen.