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And they said to the king, Let that man, we pray thee, be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.
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Then the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not resist them.
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And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.
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And Abdemelech the Ethiopian heard, (now he was in the king's household,) that they put Jeremias into the dungeon; and the king was in the gate of Benjamin:
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and he went forth to him, and spoke to the king and said,
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Thou hast done evil in what thou hast done to slay this man with hunger: for there is no more bread in the city.
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And the king commanded Abdemelech, saying, Take with thee hence thirty men, and bring him up out of the dungeon, that he die not.
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So Abdemelech took the men and went into the underground king's house, and took thence old rags and old ropes, and threw them to Jeremias into the dungeon.
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And he said, Put these under the ropes. And Jeremias did so.
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And they drew him with the ropes, and lifted him out of the dungeon: and Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.
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Then the king sent, and called him to himself into the house of Aselisel, which was in the house of the Lord: and the king said to him, I will ask thee a question, and I pray thee hide nothing from me.