The Burned Scroll Receives a Judgment Oracle

After the king burns the roll, the word returns as judgment on the burner

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim hath burned.

Thou shalt say to Jehoiakim, Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat and the frost.

I will punish him, his seed, and his servants for their iniquity; Babylon still comes

I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not. Burning the warning does not stop the army the warning named.

The episode does not mean every destroyed religious text is divine, or that an opponent's death validates a writer. Dynastic judgment is aimed at this king's contempt, not at readers who ask honest why-questions.