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Jeremiah 38:5-7
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Jeremiah 38:5-7
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hands; for the king is in no position to do anything against you.
6 So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon or cistern pit [in the charge] of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard; and they let Jeremiah down [into the pit] with ropes. And in the dungeon or cistern pit there was no water, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
7 Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian [a Cushite], one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon or cistern pit; and while the king was then sitting in the Gate of Benjamin,
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