Add parallel Print Page Options

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.

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— Ebed-melech went out from the house of the king and spoke to the king, saying,[g]

Read full chapter

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”
  7. Jeremiah 38:8 Literally “to say”