Jeremiah 38:6-8

Expanded Bible

⁶ So they [^Cthe officers] took Jeremiah and put him into the ·well [cistern; pit] of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guards. The officers used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the ·well [cistern; pit], which did not have any water in it, only mud. And Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

⁷ But Ebed-Melech, a Cushite [^Can Ethiopian] and a ·servant [or eunuch] in the ·palace [^Lhouse of the king], heard that the officers had put Jeremiah into the ·well [cistern; pit]. As King Zedekiah was sitting at the Benjamin Gate, ⁸ Ebed-Melech left the ·palace [^Lhouse of the king] and went to the king. Ebed-Melech said to him,