Jeremiah 38:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the king ordered Ebed-melech the Ethiopian: “Take three men with you, and get Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Cross References

Psalm 75:10

But I will rejoice forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,

Proverbs 21:1

A king’s heart is channeled water in the hand of the Lord; God directs it where he pleases.

Jeremiah 38:11

Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went first to the linen closet in the house of the king. He took some old, tattered rags and lowered them by rope to Jeremiah in the cistern.

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian, a court official in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord king, these men have done wrong in all their treatment of Jeremiah the prophet, throwing him into the cistern. He will starve to death on the spot, for there is no more bread in the city.”