OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 38:6

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Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

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Verse 6. Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered. Jos. Ant. x. 10.

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