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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.
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And Jeremias said to the king, If I tell thee, wilt thou not certainly put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not at all hearken to me.
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And the king swore to him, saying, the Lord lives who gave us this soul, I will not slay thee, neither will I give thee into the hands of these men.
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And Jeremias said to him, Thus saith the Lord; If thou wilt indeed go forth to the captains of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall certainly not be burnt with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house.
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But if thou wilt not go forth this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt by no means escape.
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And the king said to Jeremias, I consider the Jews that have gone over to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands, and they mock me.