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 and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good, and they shall come to pass before thy face in that day.

Ethiopian

Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Great ones shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall quickly stretch out her hands unto God.

But I say unto you, that many shall come from the rising and setting sun, and shall lie down at table with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens;

Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state.

And they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.

And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,

The king

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Thou art deserting to the Chaldeans.

then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.