6Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
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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