²¹ Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. After he took it from the room of Elishama the secretary, Jehudi read it to the king in the hearing of all the officials who stood beside the king. ²² Now the king was sitting in the winter house (it was the ninth month),^[a] and there was a metal heating pan with a fire of burning coals in front of him. ²³ Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king would cut it off with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire until the entire scroll was burned up in the fire.