CHAPTER 38 _ 1. Jeremiah in the dungeon and his rescue (Jeremiah 38:1) _ 2. Jeremiah with Zedekiah: His last appeal (Jeremiah 38:14) Jeremiah 38:1. Jeremiah is next accused of high treason. Th
Four of the princes (Jeremiah 37:15) hear Jeremiah (confined in the guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21) foretelling the fall of the city and advising individual surrender (_cf._ Jeremiah 21:9 f.). They denou...
EBED-MELECH. Some codices add "the Ethiopian"....
See introd. summary to section....
D. Rescued by Ebed-melech Jeremiah 38:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian. one of the eunuchs attached to the household if the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. No...
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, EBED-MELECH WENT FORTH ... AND SPAKE TO THE KING - not privately, but in public; a proof of fearless magnanimity....
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
Under these circumstances he continued to foretell the victory of the Chaldeans, with the result that the anger of the princes was stirred up against him, and he was cast into a most loathsome dungeon...
See how the Lord raiseth instruments, from the most unexpected quarters, for the deliverance of his people. Here was a stranger, and a Gentile, prompted to fly to the rescue of one of the Lord's proph...
It now follows, that Ebed-melech _went forth from the palace _and _came _to the king’s tribunal, that he might there plead the cause of the Prophet. It is right to notice this circumstance as well as...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 AND 38. Chapter 37 gives us Zedekiah in the same state of disobedience. A show of religion is kept up, and, having a moment of respite which excites some h...
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, a...
Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, Ver. 8. _Ebedmelech._] Not more the king's servant (so his name signifieth) than God's. Joseph of Arimathea was such anot...
_Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian_ Or _Cushite_, as the Hebrew is. His country seems to be mentioned to let us know that this prophet of the Lord found more kindness from a stranger, who was a nativ...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house and spake to the king, not secretly, but openly, fearlessly championing the cause of the persecuted prophet and risking the displeasure of the capricious...
1-13 Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's faithful ministers as enemies, because they show what enemies the...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 38:8 Ebed-Melech H5663 out H3318 (H8799) kings H4428 house H1004 spoke H1696 (H8762) king H4428 saying...
JEREMIAH'S EXPERIENCES IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD (JEREMIAH 38:1). But even the fact that Jeremiah was in the court of the guard did not prevent him from further maltreatment by those who saw him as a...
JEREMIAH IS SEEN AS A TRAITOR AND IS THRUST INTO A WELL FILLED WITH DEEP MUD WHICH WAS IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD, WHERE HE WOULD HAVE DIED HAD HE NOT BEEN RESCUED BY EBEDMELECH, A SUDANESE (JEREMIAH 3...
Jeremiah 38 Ropes and rags. I. Help always comes from above. Jeremiah found it so. It was useless to try to climb out of the dungeon, it was only to fall deeper into the mire. "Salvation is of the L...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment, continued. His private conference with the king. CHARACTERS: Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jucal, Pashur, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Malchiah, Ebed-melech, Jonathan. CONCLUSION: G...
Jeremiah 38:7. _Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,_ the king's chamberlain. It seems to have been a new name given him on his promotion to office; but God gave him long life for preserving the life of Jeremia...
_Ebed-melech the Ethiopian._ EBED-MELECH THE ETHIOPIAN A slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet an e...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:8 EBED-MELECH shows himself superior in character to the weak Zedekiah. He recognizes the injustice Jeremiah 1:1
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES as on preceding chapter. Personal Allusions. Jeremiah 38:1. “_Shephatiah_,” never elsewhere mentioned. “_Gedaliah_,” possibly son of “Pashur” the vio...
CONTINUATION. EXPOSITION The object of the princes being frustrated (for in the "court of the guard" Jeremiah had perfect freedom and opportunity of speech), the princes resolve upon a more effectua...
Now we come to the third part of the book of Jeremiah and this covers the period of Zedekiah the king. These particular prophecies, thirty-seven through thirty-nine, cover from the time that Zedekiah...