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 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

Ethiopian

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Likewise ye also cannot do good, being taught to do evil.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

But I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west and shall sit down at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens.

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

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.

And others shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south and shall sit at the table in the kingdom of God.

Then he arose and went, and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,

The king

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away 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 to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza!

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.