Jeremiah 38:10

Easy To Read Version

Then King Zedekiah gave a command to Ebed Melech, the Ethiopian. This was the command: “Ebed Melech, take three {\cf2\super [328]} men from the king’s house with you. Go and lift Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.”

Cross References

Esther 5:2

Then the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court. When he saw her, he was very pleased. He held out to her the gold scepter {\cf2\super [19]} that was in his hand. So Esther went in to the room and went near the king. Then she touched the end of the king’s gold scepter.

Esther 8:7

King Xerxes answered Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew. This is what the king said, “Because Haman was against the Jews, I have given his property to Esther. And my soldiers have hanged him on the hanging post.

Psalm 75:10

I will take power away from wicked people,\par and I will give power to good people.\par

Proverbs 21:1

\{Farmers dig small ditches to water their fields. They change where the water goes by closing different ditches.\} The Lord controls a king’s mind just like that. The Lord can lead the king wherever he wants him to go.

Jeremiah 38:11

So Ebed Melech took the men with him. But first he went to a room under the storeroom in the king’s house. He took some old rags and worn-out clothes from that room. Then he let those rags down with some ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern. {\cf2\super [329]}

Jeremiah 38:7

But a man named Ebed Melech heard that those officials had put Jeremiah into the cistern. {\cf2\super [325]} Ebed Melech was a man from Ethiopia, and he was a eunuch {\cf2\super [326]} in the king’s house. King Zedekiah was sitting at the Benjamin Gate. So Ebed Melech left the king’s house and went to talk to the king at that gate.