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Jeremiah 38:5-7
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5 And Zedekiah the king said, “Look, he is in your hand, for the king is not able to do a thing against you.” 6 So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit[a] of Malchiah, the son of the king, which was in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit[b] there was no water,[c] but only[d] mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

7 When Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch[e] who was in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit[f]—now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin—

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 38:6 Or “cistern”
  2. Jeremiah 38:6 Or “cistern”
  3. Jeremiah 38:6 Hebrew “waters”
  4. Jeremiah 38:6 Literally “but if”
  5. Jeremiah 38:7 Literally “a man of a eunuch”
  6. Jeremiah 38:7 Or “cistern”
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