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Then King Zedekiah sent for him and secretly questioned him in his house:"Is there any word from Yahweh?" Jeremiah replied, "Yes, there is!" and added, "You will be handed over to the king of Babylon!" (Jeremiah 37, 17)
Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, "What wrong have I done to you, to your servants or to the people that you should have me imprisoned? (Jeremiah 37, 18)
who said to you: 'The King of Babylon will never come to attack you and destroy this land?' Now listen to me, my lord king! Take heed of my plea and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, for there I am doomed to die!" (Jeremiah 37, 20)
So King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be transferred to the Guards' Court and that every day he be supplied with loaf of bread from the bakers' street until there was no more bread. So Jeremiah remained in the Guards' Court. (Jeremiah 37, 21)
For Yahweh has spoken: I have handed over this city to the king of Babylon and he will take it." (Jeremiah 38, 3)
Then the officials told the king, "This man should be put to death, because he is weakening the will of the fighting men and the people left the city. In fact he is not out to save the people but to do harm." (Jeremiah 38, 4)
King Zedekiah said, "His life is in your hands for the king has no power against you." (Jeremiah 38, 5)
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah the king's son, in the Guards' Court. They lowered him by means of ropes. There was no water in the cistern but only mud and Jeremiah sank into the mud. (Jeremiah 38, 6)
Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian official of the king's house, heard that they had lowered Jeremiah in the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate, (Jeremiah 38, 7)
"My lord king! These men have acted wickedly in all they did to Jeremiah the prophet. They threw him into the cistern where he will die." (Jeremiah 38, 9)
So the king ordered Ebedmelech the Ethiopian: "Take three men with you from here and draw Jeremiah the prophet out from the cistern before he dies." (Jeremiah 38, 10)
Ebedmelech took the men with him and went into the king's house beneath the treasury. There he got pieces of rags and old clothes which he lowered by means of ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern. (Jeremiah 38, 11)
