Jeremiah 38:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,”
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“Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Now when Ebed–melech 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;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who <FI>is<Fi> in the king's house, heareth that they have put Jeremiah into the pit; and the king is sitting at the gate of Benjamin,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 38:7 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 21:19his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
- 2 Kings 24:15Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
- Psalms 68:31Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.
- Proverbs 29:10Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.
- Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.
- Jeremiah 29:2(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
- Jeremiah 34:19The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,
- Jeremiah 37:13But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
- Jeremiah 39:16“Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
- Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
- Matthew 8:11I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 20:16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
- Luke 10:30Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.
- Luke 13:29People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.
- Acts 8:27So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
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