 Zedekiah, a rather weak man, I might add, he's in your hand. The king can't do anything to oppose you. So they took him and they put him into the cistern of the king's son that was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered him by ropes into the cistern, had no water in it, only mud. And Jeremiah sank down in the mud. It was their intent to let him die there.