Jeremiah 38:5-7

New International Version - UK

⁵ ‘He is in your hands,’ King Zedekiah answered. ‘The king can do nothing to oppose you.’

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

⁷ But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite,^[a] an official^[b] in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,