Jeremiah 38:8

Updated Bible Version

Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, 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,

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,

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 And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying, ² Thus says Yahweh, He that abides in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. ³ Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. ⁴ Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; since he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt. ⁵ And Zedekiah the king said, Look, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you. ⁶ Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. ⁷ Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,) ⁸ Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying, ⁹ My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city. ¹⁰ Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Jeremiah 32:3 - Behold Micah 7:18 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 38:5
And she yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

Genesis 38:8
And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.

Genesis 38:9
And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

Genesis 38:10
And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and he slew him also.

Genesis 38:11
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah my son is grown up; for he said, Or else he will also die, like his brothers. And Tamar went and remained in her father's house.

Genesis 38:23
And Judah said, Let her take it to her, or else we will be put to shame: look, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her.

Genesis 38:27
And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, look, twins were in her womb.

Leviticus 18:16
You shall not have sex with your brother's wife.

Ruth 1:11
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? have I yet sons inside me, that they may be 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: