Jeremiah 38:7–13

⁷And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon—now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin, ⁸—and Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying, ⁹My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city. ¹⁰And the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. ¹¹And Ebed-melech took the men under his order, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old shreds and worn-out clothes, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. ¹²And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put, I pray, these old shreds and rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. ¹³And they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and brought him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.