Jeremiah 38:6-9

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it. ⁷ Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch (officer) who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate. ⁸ So Ebedmelech went there and said to the king: ⁹ »Your Majesty, what these men have done is wrong. They have put Jeremiah in the well, where he is sure to die of starvation, since there is no more food in the city.«

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took.
Jeremiah 37:21; Psalms 109:5; Luke 3:19; Luke 3:20
into.
Jeremiah 37:16; Lamentations 3:55; Acts 16:24; 2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Hebrews 10:36
Hammelech. or, the king.
Jeremiah 36:26
and they.
Jeremiah 38:11; Jeremiah 38:12
And in.This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place; the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty of the jailor. "The eastern people," observes Sir J. Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be forthcoming when called for. As to the rest, he is master to do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see him. If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest inhumanity." This adds a double energy to those passages which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the dungeon of Jonathan. (ver. 26; ch. 37:20.)
Jeremiah 38:22; Genesis 37:24; Psalms 40:2; Psalms 69:2; Psalms 69:14; Psalms 69:15; Lamentations 3:52-55; Zechariah 9:11