Jeremiah 38:7

Modern English Version

Now Ebed-melek the Cushite, one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:15

He exiled Jehoiachin in Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his eunuchs, and the elite of the land he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Psalm 68:31

Envoys will come from Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

Proverbs 29:10

The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity, and the life of the upright.

Isaiah 56:3

Do not let the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak, saying, “The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”; do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Cushite change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

Jeremiah 20:2

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:16

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 29:2

(This was after Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)

Jeremiah 34:19

the officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf,

Jeremiah 37:13

When he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are falling away to the Chaldeans!”

Jeremiah 38:8

Ebed-melek went forth out of the king’s house and spoke to the king, saying,

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who prosecutes at the gate, and abhor the one who speaks with integrity.

Zechariah 14:10

All the land will be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon to the south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem will rise and dwell in her place from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the Old Gate, to the Corner Gate, and then from the Tower of Hananel to the winepress of the king.

Matthew 20:16

“So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and his mother are to lay hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.

Joshua 20:4

“ ‘The refugee can flee to one of these cities then stand at the entrance of the city gate and tell his case to the city elders. They will take him into the city and give him a place to stay, and he will live with them.