Jeremiah 38:6-8

Living Bible

⁶ They took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. (It belonged to Malchiah, a member of the royal family.) There was no water in it, but there was a thick layer of mire at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.

⁷ When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an important palace official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern, ⁸ he rushed out to the Gate of Benjamin where the king was holding court.