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But for the king himself, he was not at all irritated against Jeremiah,
such was his gentle and righteous disposition; yet, that he might not be
engaged in a quarrel with those rulers at such a time, by opposing what
they intended, he let them do with the prophet whatsoever they would; whereupon,
when the king had granted them such a permission, they presently came into
the prison, and took him, and let him down with a cord into a pit full
of mire, that he might be suffocated, and die of himself. So he stood up
to the neck in the mire which was all about him, and so continued; but
there was one of the king's servants, who was in esteem with him, an Ethiopian
by descent, who told the king what a state the prophet was in, and said
that his friends and his rulers had done evil in putting the prophet into
the mire, and by that means contriving against him that he should suffer
a death more bitter than that by his bonds only. When the king heard this,
he repented of his having delivered up the prophet to the rulers, and bid
the Ethiopian take thirty men of the king's guards, and cords with them,
and whatsoever else they understood to be necessary for the prophet's preservation,
and to draw him up immediately. So the Ethiopian took the men he was ordered
to take, and drew up the prophet out of the mire, and left him at liberty
[in the prison].
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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