10 Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the black Moor, saying, Take from hence thirty men [a]with thee, and take Jeremiah the Prophet out of the dungeon before he die.

11 So Ebed-Melech took the men with him, and went to the house of the king under the treasury, and took there old rotten rags, and old worn clouts, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

12 And Ebed-Melech the black Moor said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old rotten rags and worn, under thine arm holes, between the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 38:10 Hebrew, under thine hand.

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