Jeremiah 38:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ and he left the palace to speak to the king who at that moment was seated at the Benjamin Gate. ⁹ “My lord king,” he said, “these men have acted wickedly in their treatment of the prophet Jeremiah. They threw him into a cistern and left him there to die of hunger, for there is no more bread left in the city.”

¹⁰ The king instructed Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, to take three men along with him and lift the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before he perished.