“ Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, ”
Four of the princes ( Jeremiah 37:15 ) hear Jeremiah (confined in the guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21 ) foretelling the fall of the city and advising individual surrender ( cf. Jeremiah 21:9 f.). The...
Ebed-melech. Some codices add "the Ethiopian".
It now follows, that Ebed-melech went forth from the palace and came to the king’s tribunal, that he might there plead the cause of the Prophet. It is right to notice this circumstance as...
Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, Ebed-melech went forth ... and spake to the king - not privately, but in public; a proof of fearless magnanimity...
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes.
Under these circumstances he continued to foretell the victory of the Chaldeans, with the result that the anger of the princes was stirred up against him, and he was cast into a most loathsome dungeo...
See how the Lord raiseth instruments, from the most unexpected quarters, for the deliverance of his people. Here was a stranger, and a Gentile, prompted to fly to the rescue of one of the Lord's prop...
And Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house ,.... As soon as he heard of the prophet's distress, he immediately went out from his apartments in the king's palace, where he performed his office...
Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, Ver. 8. Ebedmelech. ] Not more the king's servant (so his name signifieth) than God's. Joseph of Arimathea was such an...
Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian Or Cushite , as the Hebrew is. His country seems to be mentioned to let us know that this prophet of the Lord found more kindness from a stranger, who was a nati...
Jeremiah Put into the Dungeon; Ebed-melech's Care of Jeremiah. B. C. 589. 1 Then Shephat...
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Jeremiah Is Seen As A Traitor And Is Thrust Into A Well Filled With Deep Mud Which Was In The Court Of The Guard, Where He Would Have Died Had He Not Been Rescued By Ebedmelech, A Sudanese ( Jeremia...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Chronological Notes as on preceding chapter. Personal Allusions. Jeremiah 38:1 . “ Shephatiah ,” never elsewhere mentioned. “ Gedaliah ,” possibly son of “Pashur” t...
Jeremiah 38 Ropes and rags. I. Help always comes from above. Jeremiah found it so. It was useless to try to climb out of the dungeon, it was only to fall deeper into the mire. "Salvation is of th...
Jeremiah 38:7 . Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, the king's chamberlain. It seems to have been a new name given him on his promotion to office; but God gave him long life for preserving the life of Jere...
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian. Ebed-melech the Ethiopian A slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet a...
CONTINUATION . EXPOSITION The object of the princes being frustrated (for in the "court of the guard" Jeremiah had perfect freedom and opportunity of speech), the princes resolve upon a more e...
Jeremiah Cast into a Pit