Jeremiah 38:7-9 (New International Version)
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But Ebed-Melech,1 a Cushite,a an officialb2 in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,3
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Ebed-Melech went out of the palace and said to him,
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"My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern,4 where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread5 in the city."
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