“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon.
He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.”