ബൈബിൾ എക്സ്പ്ലോറർ · സംഭവം · 604 BC

King Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s prophetic scroll in his winter palace

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.