21 King Je·hoiʹa·kim+ and all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death.+ When U·riʹjah heard of it, he at once became afraid and fled to Egypt.

22 The king was sitting in the winter house, in the ninth month,* with a fire burning in the brazier before him. 23 After Je·huʹdi had read three or four columns, the king would cut off that portion with the secretary’s knife and pitch it into the fire that was burning in the brazier, until the entire scroll ended up in the fire that was in the brazier. 24 And they felt no dread; neither the king nor all his servants who heard all these words ripped their garments apart.