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Jeremiah 38:5-7
American Standard Version
Jeremiah 38:5-7
American Standard Version
5 And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you. 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the [a]dungeon of Malchijah [b]the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
7 Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),
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- Jeremiah 38:6 Or, pit
- Jeremiah 38:6 Or, the son of Hammelech
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