Jeremiah 38:5-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁵ King Zedekiah answered, “Very well. He is in your hands. The king cannot do anything to stop you.”

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They let Jeremiah down by ropes. There was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

⁷ Ebed Melek the Cushite,^[a] an official in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,