Jeremiah 38:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Zedekiah answered, “Take thirty of my soldiers and pull Jeremiah out before he dies.”

Cross References

Esther 5:2

He was happy to see Esther, and he held out the gold sceptre to her. When Esther came up and touched the tip of the sceptre,

Esther 8:7

King Xerxes then said to Esther and Mordecai, “I have already ordered Haman to be hanged and his house given to Esther, because of his evil plans to kill the Jews.

Psalm 75:10

Our Lord, you will destroy the power of evil people, but you will give strength to those who are good.

Proverbs 21:1

The LORD controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

Jeremiah 38:11

Ebedmelech and the soldiers went to the palace and got some rags from the room under the treasury. He used ropes to lower them into the well.

Jeremiah 38:7

Ebedmelech from Ethiopia was an official at the palace, and he heard what they had done to me. So he went to speak with King Zedekiah, who was holding court at Benjamin Gate.

Jeremiah 38:9

Ebedmelech said, “Your Majesty, Jeremiah is a prophet, and those men were wrong to throw him into a well. And when Jerusalem runs out of food, Jeremiah will starve to death down there.”