5. Zedekiah replied, “Do what you want with him. I can't stop you.”
6. Then they took me back to the courtyard of the palace guards and let me down with ropes into the well that belonged to Malchiah, the king's son. There was no water in the well, and I sank down in the mud.
9. Ebedmelech said, “Your Majesty, Jeremiah is a prophet, and those men were wrong to throw him into a well. And when Jerusalem runs out of food, Jeremiah will starve to death down there.”
10. Zedekiah answered, “Take thirty of my soldiers and pull Jeremiah out before he dies.”