And the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, Take in your hand thirty men from here and bring up Jeremiah the prophet out of the pit before he dies.
And it happened, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she rose in favor in his eyes. And the king held out the golden scepter that was in his hand to Esther. And Esther drew near and touched the top of the scepter.
And King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Haman’s house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the wooden gallows because he put forth his hand against the Jews.
And Ebed-melech took the men in his hand and went into the king’s house, to under the treasury. And he took worn out clothes and worn out rags from there. And he let them down by ropes into the pit to Jeremiah.
And Ebed-melech, the Cushite man, who is of the eunuchs in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin).
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have thrown into the pit. And he may die in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.