Jeremiah 38:8

New Life Version

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

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,

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 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 Now Shaphatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard Jeremiah telling all the people, ² "The Lord says, ‘He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by hunger and by disease. But he who goes over to the Babylonians will live. He will get away with his life and live.' ³ The Lord says, ‘For sure this city will be given to the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.'" ⁴ Then the leaders said to the king, "Now let this man be put to death. For he is making the hearts of the men of war weak who are left in this city, and of all the people, by saying such words to them. This man does not care about the well-being of these people, but instead wants them hurt." ⁵ So King Zedekiah said, "He is in your hands. The king can do nothing against you." ⁶ So they took Jeremiah and put him into the well of Malchijah the king's son, in the open space of the prison, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the well, but only mud. And Jeremiah went down into the mud. ⁷ But Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian servant of the king who had been made so he could not have children, heard in the king's house that they had put Jeremiah into the well. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin. ⁸ And Ebedmelech went from the king's house and said to him, ⁹ "My lord the king, these men have been very sinful in all they have done to Jeremiah the man of God. They have put him in the well. And he will die there of hunger, for there is no more bread in the city." ¹⁰ Then the king told Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, "I am giving you the power to take thirty men with you, and bring Jeremiah the man of God up from the well before he dies."

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Cross-References

Genesis 38:5
Then she gave birth to another son at Chezib. And she gave him the name Shelah.

Genesis 38:8
Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife. Do your duty as her brother-in-law. Have children for your brother."

Genesis 38:9
But Onan knew that the children would not be his. So when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground to keep his brother from having children.

Genesis 38:10
What he did was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. So the Lord took his life also.

Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Stay in your father's house as a woman whose husband has died, until my son Shelah is grown." For he thought, "I am afraid that he also may die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Genesis 38:23
Then Judah said, "Let her keep the things, or else we will be laughed at. I sent the young goat, and you did not find her."

Genesis 38:27
When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were two babies.

Leviticus 18:16
Do not take the clothes off your brother's wife. Her body is for your brother.

Ruth 1:11
But Naomi said, "Return to your people, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Do I have more sons within me, who could 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: