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Jeremiah 36:20-28 (ESV)

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²⁰ So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words to the king. ²¹ Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary. And Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king. ²² It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house, and there was a fire burning in the fire pot before him. ²³ As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot. ²⁴ Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments. ²⁵ Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶ And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them. ²⁷ Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: ²⁸ "Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

Definition(s):
Abdeel (Ab-de-el): a vapor; a cloud of God
Azriel (Az-ree-el): same as Asriel
Baruch (Bar-ook): who is blessed
Delaiah (De-la-yah): the poor of the Lord
Elishama (E-lish-a-ma): God hearing
Elnathan (Ell-nah-thann): God hath given; the gift of God
Gemariah (Ge-mar-eye-a): accomplishment or perfection of the Lord
Jerahmeel (Je-ra-me-el): the mercy, or the beloved, of God
Jeremiah (Jer-em-eye-ya): exaltation of the Lord
Judah (Joo-da): the praise of the Lord; confession
Seraiah (Serr-eye-a): prince of the Lord
Shelemiah (Shel-e-my-a): God is my perfection; my happiness; my peace
Jehudi (Je-hood-eye):