Jeremiah 38:9-11

Contemporary English Version

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 thirty^[a] of my soldiers and pull Jeremiah out before he dies.”

¹¹ Ebedmelech and the soldiers went to the palace and got some rags from the room under the treasury. He used ropes to lower them into the well.