Jeremiah 38:8
in Jeremiah 38Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and said to the king,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,
KJV
Ebed–melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,
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This verse in Jeremiah 38
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon
on Jeremiah 38:7-13
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch in the king's house and so a foreigner and an outsider by two counts, hears of the dungeon and goes straight to Zedekiah sitting in the gate: these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. His plainness moves the king to immediate action, thirty men and old cast clouts and rotten rags to pad the cords against the prophet's armholes, a practical kindness the text records in its own careful detail. The bench notes the reversal: the princes born of Judah sought Jeremiah's death, and a Cushite servant with no standing in the covenant people saved his life, a man later given his own oracle of deliverance for the trust he showed here (39:15-18).
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house,.... As soon as he heard of the prophet's distress, he immediately went out from his apartments in the king's palace, where he performed his office, and his business chiefly lay, or where he dwelt, to the gate of Benjamin, where the king was; and if he was here for the administration of justice, it was a proper time and place for Ebedmelech to lay the case of Jeremiah before him: and spake to the king; freely, boldly, and intrepidly, in the presence of his nobles: saying; as follows:
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּצֵ֥א | vaiyetze' | and he went out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| עֶֽבֶד־ | ʾeved- | Ebed | H5663 → | 12 times |
| מֶ֖לֶךְ | melekh | Melech | H5663 → | 12 times |
| מִבֵּ֣ית | mibeit | from [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר | vaydaber | and he spoke | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| לֵאמֹֽר׃ | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַיֵּצֵ֥אand he went out
vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times
עֶֽבֶד־Ebed
ʾeved-H5663 →12 times
מֶ֖לֶךְMelech
melekhH5663 →12 times
מִבֵּ֣יתfrom [the] house of
mibeitH1004 →2046 times
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke
vaydaberH1696 →1141 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).