16and it cometh to pass, when they hear all the words, they have been afraid one at another, and say unto Baruch, `We do surely declare to the king all these words.`
17And they asked Baruch, saying, `Declare, we pray thee, to us, how didst thou write all these words -- from his mouth?`
18And Baruch saith to them, `From his mouth, he pronounceth unto me all these words, and I am writing on the book with ink.`
19And the heads say unto Baruch, `Go, be hidden, thou and Jeremiah, and let no one know where ye [are].`
20And they go in unto the king, to the court, and the roll they have laid up in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they declare in the ears of the king all the words.
21And the king sendeth Jehudi to take the roll, and he taketh it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and Jehudi readeth it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the heads who are standing by the king;
22and the king is sitting in the winter-house, in the ninth month, and the stove before him is burning,
