Jeremiah 38:6-8

6So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the 1cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard 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, a 45eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting at the 6Gate of Benjamin;

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