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, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring My Words on this city for evil and not for good. And they shall be done in that day before you.

Ethiopian

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

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

And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven.

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

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

And they will come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and will recline in the kingdom of God.

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

The king

And it happened, he being in the gate of Benjamin, a commander of the guard named Irijah was there, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.

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

when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street!

They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly.