Jeremiah 38:8

Good News Translation

So Ebedmelech went there and said to the king,

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,

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

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,

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

¹ Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah heard that I was telling the people that ² the Lord had said, "Whoever stays on in the city will die in war or of starvation or disease. But those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will not be killed; they will at least escape with their life." ³ I was also telling them that the Lord had said, "I am going to give the city to the Babylonian army, and they will capture it." ⁴ Then the officials went to the king and said, "This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage, and he is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people; he only wants to hurt them." ⁵ King Zedekiah answered, "Very well, then, do what you want to with him; I can't stop you." ⁶ So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it. ⁷ However, Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate. ⁸ So Ebedmelech went there and said to the king, ⁹ "Your Majesty, what these men have done is wrong. They have put Jeremiah in the well, where he is sure to die of starvation, since there is no more food in the city." ¹⁰ Then the king ordered Ebedmelech to take with him three men and to pull me out of the well before I died.

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Cross-References

Genesis 38:5
Again she had a son and named him Shelah. Judah was at Achzib when the boy was born.

Genesis 38:8
Then Judah said to Er's brother Onan, "Go and sleep with your brother's widow. Fulfill your obligation to her as her husband's brother, so that your brother may have descendants."

Genesis 38:9
But Onan knew that the children would not belong to him, so when he had intercourse with his brother's widow, he let the semen spill on the ground, so that there would be no children for his brother.

Genesis 38:10
What he did displeased the Lord , and the Lord killed him also.

Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Return to your father's house and remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up." He said this because he was afraid that Shelah would be killed, as his brothers had been. So Tamar went back home.

Genesis 38:23
Judah said, "Let her keep the things. We don't want people to laugh at us. I did try to pay her, but you couldn't find her."

Genesis 38:27
When the time came for her to give birth, it was discovered that she was going to have twins.

Leviticus 18:16
or with your brother's wife.

Ruth 1:11
"You must go back, my daughters," Naomi answered. "Why do you want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry?

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: