Jeremiah 38:6

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So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son. It was in the courtyard of the prison. They used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the cistern. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Cross References

Genesis 37:24

Then they took him and put him into an empty cistern. It had no water in it.

Psalm 109:5

They reward me with evil instead of good and with hatred instead of love.

Psalm 40:2

He pulled me out of a horrible pit, out of the mud and clay. He set my feet on a rock and made my steps secure.

Psalm 69:2

I am sinking in deep mud. There is nothing to stand on. I am in deep water. A flood is sweeping me away.

Jeremiah 32:2

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was blockading Jerusalem. The prophet Jeremiah was locked up in the courtyard of the prison. This prison was in the palace of the king of Judah.

Jeremiah 36:26

The king commanded Jerahmeel (the king’s son), Seraiah (son of Azriel), and Shelemiah (son of Abdeel) to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord had hidden Baruch and Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 37:16

Jeremiah went into a prison cell, and he stayed there a long time.

Jeremiah 37:21

King Zedekiah gave the command to have Jeremiah put in the courtyard of the prison. He gave him a loaf of bread every day from the bakers’ street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:13

They used the ropes to pull Jeremiah up and lift him out of the cistern. Then Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:22

All the women who are left in the palace of Judah’s king will be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon. These women will say: ‘Your trusted friends have misled you and used you. Your feet are stuck in the mud, and your friends have deserted you.’

Daniel 6:16

So the king gave the order, and Daniel was brought to him and thrown into the lions’ den. The king told Daniel, “May your God, whom you always worship, save you!”

Zechariah 9:11

I will set your captives free from the waterless pit because of the blood that sealed my promise  to you.

Acts 16:24

So the jailer followed these orders and put Paul and Silas into solitary confinement with their feet in leg irons.

Hebrews 10:36

You need endurance so that after you have done what God wants you to do, you can receive what he has promised.