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Malchiah (X)

X. MALCHIAH, Son of Ham-melech, was Keeper of the Prisons of Jerusalem. By his Orders Jeremiah was let down into a Cistern in which there was no Water, but Mud only, and in which he was in Danger of his Life, if he had not been quickly delivered by the Care of an Eunuch called Ebed-melech, Jerem. xxxviii. 6, 7, 8, &c.

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