Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.You can't hide from the truth, or from God's pronouncement of it. If God decides that something is going to be known, there is no force that can prevent that from happening. Here, the king tried to suppress God's message by burning it, but he could not burn the source.
Instead, God had Jeremiah repeat the process, and dictate another scroll with the same information. Not only that, but he did one better, and added even more to it. Whether it was simply the additional message that he had received since the first scroll was created, or more specifically added to further condemn the burning of the first scroll, we don't know, but it couldn't have been good news for the offenders.
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