Jeremiah 38:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ King Zedekiah said, “Look, he’s in your hands, and the king can do nothing to you.” ⁶ So they threw Jeremiah into a cistern that belonged to the king’s son Malchijah and was located in the courtyard of the guard. When they let Jeremiah down with ropes, because there was no water in the cistern—only mud—Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Jeremiah Rescued from the Cistern

⁷ Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch^[a] in the king’s house, heard that Jeremiah had been put in the cistern. The king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,