Jeremiah 38:7-9

Lexham English Bible

⁷ When Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch^[a] who was in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit^[b]—now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin— ⁸ Ebed-melech went out from the house of the king and spoke to the king, saying,^{[c] 9} “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, in that they have thrown him into the pit,^[d] and he will die there^[e] because of^[f] starvation, for there is no longer any bread in the city.”