Jeremiah 38:6-8

6Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the 1cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only 2mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

7But 3Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, 4a 5eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the 6Gate of Benjamin;

8and Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and spoke to the king, saying,