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“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.”
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Verse 9. City. It was useless, therefore, to add the torment of the dungeon, since he must soon have perished. Calmet.
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