16So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
Jeremiah 38 plunges us into the darkest hour of Jeremiah’s prophetic ministry. The officials, enraged by his message of surrender to Babylon, throw him into a muddy cistern to die. Yet in this pit of despair, an unlikely rescuer appears: Ebed-melech, a Cushite eunuch in the king’
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