Jeremiah 38:7
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;
KJV
Audivit autem Abdemelech Æthiops, vir eunuchus, qui erat in domo regis, quod misissent Jeremiam in lacum. Porro rex sedebat in porta Benjamin :
Vulgate
ὅτι οὕτως εἶπεν Κύριος τῷ Ἰακώβ Εὐφράνθητε καὶ χρεμετίσατε ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἐθνῶν, ἀκουστὰ ποιήσατε καὶ αἰνέσατε· εἴπατε Ἔσωσεν Κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, τὸ κατάλοιπον τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
LXX
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),
ASV
וַ/יִּשְׁמַ֡ע עֶֽבֶד מֶ֨לֶךְ הַ/כּוּשִׁ֜י אִ֣ישׁ סָרִ֗יס וְ/הוּא֙ בְּ/בֵ֣ית הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּֽי נָתְנ֥וּ אֶֽת יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ אֶל הַ/בּ֑וֹר וְ/הַ/מֶּ֥לֶךְ יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּ/שַׁ֥עַר בִּנְיָמִֽן
Hebrew
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17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
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2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 5:13 — And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash,
- Acts 8:27 — And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to wors
- Amos 5:10 — They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
- Deut 21:19 — Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
- Isa 56:3 — Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
- Jer 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.
- Jer 29:2 — (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
- Jer 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
- Jer 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
- Jer 39:16 — Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, 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 accomplish
- Josh 20:4 — And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into th
- Luke 10:30 — And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
- Luke 10:33 — But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
- Luke 13:29 — And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
- Matt 8:11 — And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matt 20:16 — So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
- Prov 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- Zech 14:10 — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the c