Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an eunuch, which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Deuteronomy 21:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, American Standard Version (1901) then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; Common English Bible the father and mother will take the son before the elders of that city at its gates. Catholic Public Domain Version they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment: |
Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an eunuch, which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shall not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them:
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a riotous liver, and a drunkard.
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of an husband's brother unto me.