Jeremiah 38:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Now Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian, a court official in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

Cross References

2 Kings 24:15

He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, his wives, his functionaries, and the chiefs of the land he led captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Psalm 68:31

Roar at the wild beast of the reeds, the herd of mighty bulls, the calves of the peoples; trampling those who lust after silver scatter the peoples that delight in war.

Proverbs 29:10

The bloodthirsty hate the blameless, but the upright seek his life.

Isaiah 56:3

The foreigner joined to the Lord should not say, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people”; Nor should the eunuch say, “See, I am a dry tree.”

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change their skin, leopards their spots? As easily would you be able to do good, accustomed to evil as you are.

Jeremiah 20:2

So he struck the prophet and put him in the stocks at the upper Gate of Benjamin in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:16

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve a death sentence; it is in the name of the Lord, our God, that he speaks to us.”

Jeremiah 29:2

This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the artisans and smiths had left Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 34:19

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

Jeremiah 37:13

But at the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, by the name of Irijah, son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

Jeremiah 38:8

and Ebed-melech went there from the house of the king and said to him,

Amos 5:10

They hate those who reprove at the gate and abhor those who speak with integrity;

Zechariah 14:10

All the land will turn into a plain, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, which will stand exalted in its place—from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the Corner Gate and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

Matthew 20:16

Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.” The Third Prediction of the Passion.

Deuteronomy 21:19

his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders at the gate of his home city,

Joshua 20:4

To one of these cities the killer shall flee, and standing at the entrance of the city gate, shall plead his case in the hearing of the elders of the city, who must receive him and assign him a place in which to live among them.