Jérémie 38:11

La Bible Ostervald

Ébed-Mélec prit donc ces hommes sous sa conduite, et vint dans la maison du roi, au-dessous du Trésor, où il prit de vieux lambeaux et de vieux haillons, qu'il descendit avec des cordes à Jérémie dans la citerne.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Hebed-mélec donc prit ces hommes sous sa conduite, et entra dans la maison du Roi au lieu qui est sous la Trésorerie, d'où il prit de vieux lambeaux et de vieux haillons, et les descendit avec des cordes à Jérémie dans la fosse;

Darby's French Translation
Et Ebed-Mélec prit les hommes sous ses ordres, et alla dans la maison du roi, au-dessous du trésor. Et il prit de là de vieux lambeaux d'étoffes et de vieux haillons, et les descendit avec des cordes à Jérémie dans la fosse;

Louis Segond (1910)
Ebed-Mélec prit avec lui les hommes, et se rendit à la maison du roi, dans un lieu au-dessous du trésor; il en sortit des lambeaux usés et de vieux haillons, et les descendit à Jérémie dans la citerne, avec des cordes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let them: Jeremiah 38:6

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:19 - the treasury

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Ebedmelech took the men with him,.... The thirty men, as the king ordered: as soon as ever he had got the grant, he immediately set about the work, and lost no time to save the prophet's life:

and went unto the house of the king under the treasury; from the gate of Benjamin he went to the king's palace, and to a particular place under the treasury; by which "treasury" may be meant the treasury of garments, or the royal wardrobe, under which was a place, where clothes worn out, or cast off, were put: the Septuagint represent it as underground, a cellar under the wardrobe:

and took thence old cast clouts, and old rotten rags: the Syriac version has it, such as cattle were wiped and cleaned with:

and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah; for it was so deep, that men could not reach to put them into the hands of the prophet; and, had they been thrown in, they might have been scattered about and be out of his reach, who stuck in the mire; or they would have been in all likelihood greatly bedaubed with the mire.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Old cast clouts ... - Rags of torn garments and rags of worn-out garments.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 38:11. Went into the house of the king - and took thence — The eastern kings had their wardrobes always well furnished; as garments were a usual present to ambassadors, c. I cannot think that, in the proper acceptation of the words, these were in any part of the king's house.

Old cast clouts, and old rotten rags — The fact seems to be this: there were several garments that had been used, and would not be used again and there were others which, through continuing long there, had by insects, &c., been rendered useless. These he took, tied to the cord, let down to the prophet, that he might roll them round the ropes, and place them under his arm-pits, so that in being hauled up he might not suffer injury from the ropes, which in this case must sustain the whole weight of his body.