Bible Explorer · Event · 604 BC
As Jehudi reads Jeremiah’s scroll before King Jehoiakim and the princes in the winter room, the king cuts it into columns with a penknife and flings it into the fire brazier until entirely burned, despite Elnathan’s pleas; Jeremiah dictates an expanded scroll.
Date: 604 BC · Note: 5th year of Jehoiakim; brazen royal defiance of the prophetic word of the LORD.
Jeremiah 36:20-32