My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] 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.
Then the king commanded ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian) , saying, Take from hence thirty men with you i , and take up Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.