¹² he then went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber; and there all the princes were sitting—^(A)Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, ^(B)Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

²⁵ Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the king not to burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

³ The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of ^(A)Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,