Jeremiah 38:5-7

Tree of Life Version

⁵ Then King Zedekiah said: “Here he is in your hand. For the king cannot do anything against you.”

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern-pit of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard, lowering Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

⁷ Now Ebed-melech^[a]—an Ethiopian official in the king’s palace—heard they had put Jeremiah in the pit. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,