Jeremiah 38:6 meaning and explanation
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Jeremiah 38:6, Berean Standard Bible
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The officials of King Zedekiah, angered by Jeremiah's message that surrender to Babylon meant survival, handed him over to be killed. A cistern was a rock-cut pit for storing rainwater, dry during the siege, so Jeremiah was lowered by ropes into mud at the bottom.
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