16So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your 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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