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Then they tookJeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king'sson, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they letJeremiahdown with ropes. Now in the cisternthere was nowater but onlymud, and Jeremiahsank into the mud.
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But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king'spalace, heard that they had putJeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin;