Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
The king
Bible References
Ebed-melech
Jeremiah 39:16
Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; 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
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Psalm 68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Cush shall soon stretch out her hands to God.
Matthew 8:11
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.
Matthew 20:16
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.
Luke 10:30
And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luke 13:29
And they will come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and will sit down in the kingdom of God.
Acts 8:27
And 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
Jeremiah 37:13
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.
Deuteronomy 21:19
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.