Jeremiah 38:7

Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian eunuch, learns of Jeremiah's plight and acts while the king sits at the gate.

Cross-references · 15

• Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
• Jer 29:2(after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),
• Jer 37:13When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
• Deut 21:19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.
• Matt 20:16So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
• Matt 8:11–12I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
• Luke 10:30–36Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
• Luke 13:29–30They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom.
• Jer 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
• Jer 39:16–18“Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.
• Job 29:7–17when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
• Acts 8:27–39He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
• Ps 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
• Jer 34:19the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;
• 2 Kgs 24:15He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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