Jeremiah 38:8

Young's Literal Translation

and Ebed-Melech goeth forth from the king's house, and speaketh unto 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,

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,

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 son of Mattan, and Gedaliah son of Pashhur, and Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah, hear the words that Jeremiah is speaking unto all the people, saying, ² `Thus said Jehovah: He who is remaining in this city dieth, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, and he who is going forth unto the Chaldeans liveth, and his soul hath been to him for a prey, and he liveth. <sup>3</sup> Thus said Jehovah: This city is certainly given into the hand of the force of the king of Babylon, and he hath captured it.' <sup>4</sup> And the heads say unto the king, `Let, we pray thee, this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war, who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them according to these words, for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people, but for its evil.' ⁵ And the king Zedekiah saith, `Lo, he [is] in your hand: for the king is not able for you [in] anything.' <sup>6</sup> And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that [is] in the court of the prison, and they send down Jeremiah with cords; and in the pit there is no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sinketh in the mire. <sup>7</sup> And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who [is] in the king's house, heareth that they have put Jeremiah into the pit; and the king is sitting at the gate of Benjamin, <sup>8</sup> and Ebed-Melech goeth forth from the king's house, and speaketh unto the king, saying, <sup>9</sup> `My lord, O king, these men have done evil [in] all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.' ¹⁰ And the king commandeth Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying, `Take with thee from this thirty men, and thou hast brought up Jeremiah the prophet from the pit, before he dieth.'

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Cross-References

Genesis 38:5
and she addeth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.

Genesis 38:8
And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

Genesis 38:9
and Onan knoweth that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;

Genesis 38:10
and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.

Genesis 38:11
And Judah saith to Tamar his daughter-in-law, `Abide a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son groweth up;' for he said, `Lest he die -- even he -- like his brethren;' and Tamar goeth and dwelleth at her father's house.

Genesis 38:23
and Judah saith, `Let her take to herself, lest we become despised; lo, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.'

Genesis 38:27
And it cometh to pass in the time of her bearing, that lo, twins [are] in her womb;

Leviticus 18:16
`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it [is] thy brother's nakedness.

Ruth 1:11
And Naomi saith, `Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for 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: