So 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.
Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
When Jehudi had read three or four columns, 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.