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Jeremiah 38:8-10
Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah 38:8-10
Contemporary English Version
7-8 Ebedmelech from Ethiopia[a] was an official at the palace, and he heard what they had done to me. So he went to speak with King Zedekiah, who was holding court at Benjamin Gate. 9 Ebedmelech said, “Your Majesty, Jeremiah is a prophet, and those men were wrong to throw him into a well. And when Jerusalem runs out of food, Jeremiah will starve to death down there.”
10 Zedekiah answered, “Take 30[b] of my soldiers and pull Jeremiah out before he dies.”
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