Jeremiah 38:5-8
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5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
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6 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.
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7 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;
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8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,