8Ebed-Melech went out of the palace and said to him,
8Ebed-Melech went out of the palace and said to him,
5 "He is in your hands," King Zedekiah answered. "The king can do nothing to oppose you."
6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king's son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
7 But Ebed-Melech, a Cushite, an official in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,
8 Ebed-Melech went out of the palace and said to him,
9 "My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city."
10 Then the king commanded Ebed- Melech the Cushite, "Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies."
38:8Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,
38:8And Abdemelech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying:
38:8Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
38:8and Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,
38:8Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
38:8Ebed-melech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,
38:8Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,
38:8and Ebed-Melech goeth forth from the king's house, and speaketh unto the king, saying,
38:8Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king saying,