- So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king's son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- But Ebed-Melech, a Cushite, an official in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,
- Ebed-Melech went out of the palace and said to him,
- "My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city."
- Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Cushite, "Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies."
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- 他們就拿住耶利米、下在哈米勒的兒子〔或作王的兒子〕瑪基雅的牢獄裡.那牢獄在護衛兵的院中.他們用繩子將耶利米繫下去。牢獄裡沒有水、只有淤泥.耶利米就陷在淤泥中。
- 在王宮的太監、古實人以伯米勒、聽見他們將耶利米下了牢獄、(那時王坐在便雅憫門口)
- 以伯米勒就從王宮裡出來、對王說、
- 主我的王阿、這些人向先知耶利米一味地行惡、將他下在牢獄中.他在那裡必因飢餓而死.因為城中再沒有糧食。
- 王就吩咐古實人以伯米勒說、你從這裡帶領三十人、趁著先知耶利米未死以前、將他從牢獄中提上來。
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