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## Jeremiah 38:7-12 in Context (Verses 4–15 KJV)
 
 [4 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/4) Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.*
 
 [5 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/5) Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he *is* in your hand: for the king *is* not *he that* can do *any* thing against you.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/6) 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.*
 
 [7 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/7) ¶ Now when Ebed-melech 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;
 
 [8 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/8) Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,
 
 [9 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/9) 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 dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for *there is* no more bread in the city.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/10) 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 dungeon, before he die.*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/11) So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/12) And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now *these* old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/13) So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/14) ¶ Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that *is* in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.*
 
 [15 ](/kjv/jeremiah/38/15) 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, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
 
[Jeremiah 37](/kjv/jeremiah/37) [Jeremiah 39](/kjv/jeremiah/39)

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