24:037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
           Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should
           give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street,
           until all the bread in the city were spent.  Thus Jeremiah
           remained in the court of the prison.

24:038:001 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
           Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of
           Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all
           the people, saying,

24:038:002 Thus saith the lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die
           by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:  but he
           that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall
           have his life for a prey, and shall live.

24:038:003 Thus saith the lord, This city shall surely be given into the
           hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which shall take it.

24:038:004 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.

24:038:005 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand:  for
           the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

24:038:006 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.

24:038:007 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;

24:038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to
           the king saying,

24:038:009 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.

24:038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take
           from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the
           prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

24:038:011 So Ebedmelech 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.