Jeremiah 38:7-9

Living Bible

⁷ When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an important palace official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern, ⁸ he rushed out to the Gate of Benjamin where the king was holding court.

⁹ “My lord the king,” he said, “these men have done a very evil thing in putting Jeremiah into the cistern. He will die of hunger, for almost all the bread in the city is gone.”