The King James Version Bible

Jeremiah 38:5-8

  1. Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

  2. Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

  3. Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

  4. Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,