Jeremiah 38:7

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Summary

Now when Ebedmelech 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;

Ebed-melech

Jeremiah 39:16

Ethiopian

Acts 8:27

The king

Bible References

Ebed-melech

“Go tell Ebed-melech the Cushite: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill My words for harm and not for good against this city. They will take place before your eyes on that day.

Ethiopian

Can the Cushite change his skin,
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.

Ambassadors will come from Egypt;
Cush will stretch out its hands to God.

I tell you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

“So the last will be first, and the first last.”

Jesus took up the question and said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead.

They will come from east and west, from north and south, and recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem

The king

But when he was at the Benjamin Gate, an officer of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, and he apprehended Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”

his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.

When I went out to the city gate
and took my seat in the town square,

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.