36:20 The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama, the royal secretary, for safekeeping. 1 Then they went to the court and reported everything 2 to the king. 3 36:21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He went and got it from the room of Elishama, the royal secretary. Then he himself 4 read it to the king and all the officials who were standing around him. 36:22 Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters. 5 A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him. 6 36:23 As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns 7 of the scroll, the king 8 would cut them off with a penknife 9 and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire. 10