Jeremiah 38:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁰ So the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Cushite, ‘Take from here thirty men under your authority  and pull the prophet Jeremiah up from the cistern before he dies.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men with you and raise Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon or cistern pit before he dies.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here and take Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And so the king instructed Ebedmelech, the Ethiopian, saying: "Take with you thirty men from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet from the pit, before he dies."

Jeremiah 38:10 Cross References

Esther 5:2

As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard, she gained favour with him. The king extended the gold sceptre in his hand towards Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the sceptre.

Esther 8:7

King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, ‘Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther,  and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked  the Jews.

Proverbs 21:1

A king’s heart is like channelled water in the  Lord’s hand: He directs it wherever he chooses.

Jeremiah 38:11

So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority  and went to the king’s palace to a place below the storehouse.  From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them by ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

Jeremiah 38:7

But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official in the king’s palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

Jeremiah 38:9

‘My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.’