Jeremiah 38:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Jeremiah Is Rescued by Ebed-melech

⁷ Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,^[a] a eunuch in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Benjamin Gate, ⁸ So Ebed-melech left the king’s house and spoke to the king, ⁹ ‘My lord king, these men have acted wickedly in all they did to the prophet Jeremiah by throwing him into the cistern to die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.’