But I want you to go there the next time the people are fasting. You are to read the scroll aloud, so that they will hear everything that the LORD has said to me and that I have dictated to you. Do this where everyone can hear you, including the people of Judah who have come in from their towns.

So Baruch read the LORD's words in the Temple exactly as I had told him to do.

and brought them to the Temple. I took them into the room of the disciples of the prophet Hanan son of Igdaliah. This room was above the room of Maaseiah son of Shallum, an important official in the Temple, and near the rooms of the other officials.

Micaiah, the son of Gemariah and grandson of Shaphan, heard Baruch read from the scroll what the LORD had said.

Although Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, he paid no attention to them.

Micaiah, the son of Gemariah and grandson of Shaphan, heard Baruch read from the scroll what the LORD had said.

But because I had the support of Ahikam son of Shaphan, I was not handed over to the people and killed.

I gave the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom King Zedekiah of Judah was sending to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. It said:

From the city he took the officer who had been in command of the troops, seven of the king's personal advisers who were still in the city, the commander's assistant, who was in charge of military records, and sixty other important men.

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the court secretary;

Sheva was the court secretary; Zadok and Abiathar were the priests,

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief, and went and reported to the king what the Assyrian official had said.

When the leaders of Judah heard what had happened, they hurried from the royal palace to the Temple and took their places at the New Gate.

But the pagan places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. It was Jotham who built the North Gate of the Temple.