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And in the pit there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an officer, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the pit; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>‘My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit; and he is like to die in the place where he is because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying: ‘Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the pit, before he die.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence worn clouts and worn rags, and let them down by cords into the pit to Jeremiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah: ‘Put now these worn clouts and rags under thine armholes under the cords.’ And Jeremiah did so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the pit; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that was in the house of the LORD; and the king said unto Jeremiah: ‘I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah: ‘If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying: ‘As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah: ‘Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, thou, and thy house; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>but if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah: ‘I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But Jeremiah said: ‘They shall not deliver thee. Hearken, I beseech thee, to the voice of the LORD, in that which I speak unto thee; so it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shown me: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say:<br></div><div class="po2">Thy familiar friends have set thee on,</div><div class="po2">And have prevailed over thee;</div><div class="po2">Thy feet are sunk in the mire,</div><div class="po2">And they are turned away back.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon; and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah: ‘Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee: Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king; hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>then thou shalt say unto them: I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. 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