Jeremiah 38:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can deny [a]you nothing.
6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords: and in the dungeon there was no water but mire: so Jeremiah stuck fast in the mire.
7 Now when Ebed-Melech ye [b]black Moor, one of the Eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon, (then the king sat in the [c]gate of Benjamin)
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- Jeremiah 38:5 Wherein he grievously offended in that that not only he would not hear the truth spoken by the Prophet, but also gave him to the lusts of the wicked to be cruelly entreated.
- Jeremiah 38:7 Hebrew, Cushite, or Ethiopian.
- Jeremiah 38:7 To hear matters and give sentence.
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