²¹ the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the scribe, and read it to the king and to all the princes who were attending the king. ²² Now the king was sitting in his winter house, since it was the ninth month, and a fire was burning in the brazier before him. ²³ Each time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, he would cut off the piece with a scribe’s knife^[a] and throw it into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire in the brazier.