Jeremiah 38:7
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
Note Probably from the upper Nile region
Note Or eunuch
Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),
Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Ebed-melech
- Jeremiah 39:16–18
- Ethiopian
- Jeremiah 13:23; Psalm 68:31; Matthew 8:11, 12; Matthew 20:16; Luke 10:30–36; Luke 13:29, 30; Acts 8:27–39
- eunuchs
- Jeremiah 29:2; Jeremiah 34:19; 2 Kings 24:15
- the king
- Jeremiah 37:13; Deuteronomy 21:19; Job 29:7–17; Amos 5:10