Jeremiah 38:8

Amplified Bible

Ebed-melech went out of the king's palace and spoke to the king, saying,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ebed-melech went from the king’s palace and spoke to the king:

Hebrew Names Version
`Eved-Melekh went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

King James Version
Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king saying,

English Standard Version
Ebed-melech went from the king's house and said to the king,

New American Standard Bible
and Ebed-melech went out from the king's palace and spoke to the king, saying,

New Century Version
Ebed-Melech left the palace and went to the king. Ebed-Melech said to him,

World English Bible
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Ebed-melech went out of the Kings house, and spake to the King, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
and Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and spoke to the king, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Ebed-melech went out from the king's palace and said to the king,

Complete Jewish Bible
‘Eved-Melekh left the palace and said to the king,

Darby Translation
—and Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Ebed Melech said, "My lord and king, these officials have done evil. They have treated Jeremiah the prophet badly. They have thrown him into a cistern and left him there to die."

George Lamsa Translation
So Ebed-melech went forth out of the kings house and spoke to the king, saying,

Good News Translation
So Ebedmelech went there and said to the king,

Lexham English Bible
Ebed-melech went out from the house of the king and spoke to the king, saying,

Literal Translation
Ebed-melech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he went out off the kynges house, and spake to the kynge (which the sat vnder the porte off Ben Iamin) these wordes:

American Standard Version
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and said to the king,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying:

King James Version (1611)
Ebed-melech went foorth out of the kings house, and spake to the king, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He went out of the kynges house, and spake to the king, which then sate vnder the port of Beniamin, these wordes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.

English Revised Version
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Abdemalech yede out of the kyngis hous, and spak to the kyng,

Update Bible Version
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Ebed-melech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

New English Translation
Ebed Melech departed the palace and went to speak to the king. He said to him,

New King James Version
Ebed-Melech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying:

New Living Translation
so Ebed-melech rushed from the palace to speak with him.

New Life Bible
And Ebedmelech went from the king's house and said to him,

New Revised Standard
So Ebed-melech left the king's house and spoke to the king,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then went forth Ebed-melech out of the house of the king, and spake unto the king, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abdemelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying:

Revised Standard Version
E'bed-mel'ech went from the king's house and said to the king,

Young's Literal Translation
and Ebed-Melech goeth forth from the king's house, and speaketh unto the king, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Ebed-melech went out from the king's palace and spoke to the king, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal (also called Jehucal) the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah was speaking to all the people, saying, ²"So says the LORD, 'He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by famine, and by virulent disease (pestilence), but he who goes out to the Chaldeans [of Babylon] will live and have his [own] life as a reward and stay alive.' ³"Thus says the LORD, 'This city will certainly be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and he will take it.'" ⁴Therefore the princes (court officials) said to the king, "Please [we implore you] let this man [Jeremiah] be put to death; for [speaking] in this way he discourages and weakens [the will of] the soldiers who remain in this city and he discourages and weakens [the will of] all the people by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but rather their harm." ⁵Then King Zedekiah [fearing the princes] said, "Listen, he is in your hand; for the king is in no position to do anything against you." ⁶So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah the king's son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down [into the cistern] with ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud. ⁷Now Ebed-melech the Ethiopian (Cushite), one of the eunuchs who was in the king's palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern, and while the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin, ⁸Ebed-melech went out of the king's palace and spoke to the king, saying,⁹"My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have thrown into the cistern; and he will die [of hunger] where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city." ¹⁰Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies."

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 38:5
Again she conceived and gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.

Genesis 38:8
Then Judah told Onan, "Go in to your brother's widow, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law [under the levirate marriage custom]; [be her husband and] raise children for [the name of] your brother."

Genesis 38:9
Onan knew that the child (heir) would not be his [but his dead brother's]; so whenever he lay with his brother's widow, he spilled his seed on the ground [to prevent conception], so that he would not give a child to his brother.

Genesis 38:10
But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; therefore He killed him also [in judgment].

Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow at your father's house until Shelah my [youngest] son is grown"; [but he was deceiving her] for he thought that [if Shelah should marry her] he too might die like his brothers did. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Genesis 38:23
Then Judah said, "Let her keep the things (pledge articles) for herself, otherwise we will be a laughingstock [searching everywhere for her]. After all, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her."

Genesis 38:27
Now when the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

Leviticus 18:16
'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.

Ruth 1:11
But Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters, why should you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb that may become your husbands?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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: