Jeremiah 38:7-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ Ebed Melek the Cushite,^[a] an official in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate, ⁸ Ebed Melek left the palace and said to the king, ⁹ “My lord the king, everything that these men have done to Jeremiah the prophet is evil. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he is likely to die because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.”