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508 B
It happened that
This phrase marks an important event in the story. Jeremiah wrote God's prophesies on a scroll but the king burned it. It is possible this action was intended to be understood as representing the definitiveness of these prophecies.
columns
these are columns of words on the scroll
would cut it off
"would cut that part of the scroll off"
with a knife
"using the kind of knife that scribes use"
until all of the scroll was destroyed
"until the scroll was completely gone"