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So King Zedekiah said, “Behold, he is in your [a]hands; for the king (A)can do nothing against you.” Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the [b](B)cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only (C)mire, and Jeremiah sank into the mire. But (D)Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, [c]a (E)eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the (F)Gate of Benjamin;

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 38:5 Lit hand
  2. Jeremiah 38:6 Or pit, so in ch, cf. Gen 37:24; Lam 3:53; Zech 9:11
  3. Jeremiah 38:7 Or an official