The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon;
and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is
no more bread in the city.
JER 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,
Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet
out of the dungeon, before he die.
JER 38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house
of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old
rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
JER 38:12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now
these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the
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