Jeremiah 38:7-13 ▼

7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the Benjamin Gate),

8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

9 |My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.|

10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, |Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.|

11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, |Put now these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.| Jeremiah did so.

13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.