Jeremiah 38:13
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and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
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So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.
he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.
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.
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.