Ebed-melech

You are here: God >> Bible Concordance >> Ebed-melech

• But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,* an important palace official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate,3 - Jeremiah 38:7



• so Ebed-melech rushed from the palace to speak with him. - Jeremiah 38:8



• So the king told Ebed-melech, "Take along thirty of my men, and pull Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies." - Jeremiah 38:10



• So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to a room in the palace beneath the treasury, where he found some old rags and discarded clothing. He carried these to the cistern and lowered them to Jeremiah on a rope. - Jeremiah 38:11



• Ebed-melech called down to Jeremiah, "Put these rags under your armpits to protect you from the ropes." Then when Jeremiah was ready, - Jeremiah 38:12



• "Say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,* `The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will do to this city everything I have threatened. I will send disaster, not prosperity. You will see its destruction,6 - Jeremiah 39:16

^{New Living Translation Bible used with permission Tyndale House Publishers.}