Jeremiah 38:5-7

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⁵ So King Zedekiah agreed. “All right,” he said. “Do as you like—I can’t stop you.”

⁶ They took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. (It belonged to Malchiah, a member of the royal family.) There was no water in it, but there was a thick layer of mire at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.

⁷ When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an important palace official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern,