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Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the [a](A)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 (B)mire, and Jeremiah sank into the mire.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 38:6 Or pit, so in ch, cf. Gen 37:24; Lam 3:53; Zech 9:11