Jeremiah 38:6

New American Bible - revised edition

And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah, in the court of the guard, letting him down by rope. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Cross References

Genesis 37:24

then they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.

Psalm 109:5

They repay me evil for good, hatred for my love.

Psalm 40:2

Surely, I wait for the Lord; who bends down to me and hears my cry,

Psalm 69:2

Save me, God, for the waters have reached my neck.

Jeremiah 32:2

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, while Jeremiah the prophet was confined to the court of the guard, in the house of the king of Judah.

Jeremiah 36:26

He commanded Jerahmeel, a royal prince, and Seraiah, son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch, the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden them away.

Jeremiah 37:16

And so Jeremiah went into a room in the dungeon, where he remained many days.

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be confined in the court of the guard and given a ration of bread every day from the bakers’ street until all the bread in the city was eaten up. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:13

and they pulled him up by rope out of the cistern. But Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:22

I see all the women who remain in the house of Judah’s king being brought out to the princes of Babylon’s king, and they are crying: ‘They betrayed you, outdid you, your good friends! Now that your feet are sunk in mud, they slink away.’

Daniel 6:16

But these men pressed the king. “Keep in mind, O king,” they said, “that under the law of the Medes and Persians every royal prohibition or decree is irrevocable.”

Zechariah 9:11

As for you, by the blood of your covenant, I have freed your prisoners from a waterless pit.

Acts 16:24

When he received these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and secured their feet to a stake. Deliverance from Prison.

Hebrews 10:36

You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.