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

Bible References

Ebed-melech

Jeremiah 39:16
Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.

Ethiopian

Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Psalm 68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
Matthew 8:11
I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
Luke 10:30
Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luke 13:29
They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
Acts 8:27
He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

The king

Jeremiah 37:13
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 Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling 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 forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.