Jeremiah 36:20
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
After Baruch read the roll, the princes warned Baruch and Jeremiah to go and hide themselves. They then laid up the roll for safekeeping in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and went in to the king into the court to tell all its words in his ears. The roll they so handled and reported contained the Lord's written warning and reproofs to ancient Israel.
Their report set in motion the king's direct encounter with the message, for he sent Jehudi to fetch the roll that it might be read before him. As it was read, he cut it with a penknife and cast it into the fire burning in the winter house, showing no fear despite intercession urging him to spare it. The verse thus stands within Jehoiakim's rejection of God's written message, a warning the people and the king would not receive, and its account is inseparably connected with the scroll's later burning.
Rejecting or burning the message could not destroy it, for God caused the rejected message to be written again with more added to it, and He still repeats the messages of warning as before. Refusal to receive correction does not bring the message to an end, and rejecting it lays responsibility upon those who refuse correction. God's people are to study this rejection, because some in recent years have virtually repeated that burning of the messages of the Spirit of God by trifling with the Lord, by spending the time given for repentance and reform in criticism and in following man-formed opinions, and by passing the boundary line as seen in the treatment of Christ and of God's faithful servants in every age.