For Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Bavel, and he shall take it;
Jeremiah 38:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) `Eved-Melekh went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Ebed-melech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying, American Standard Version (1901) Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying, Common English Bible Ebed-melech left the palace and said to the king: Catholic Public Domain Version And so Ebedmelech departed from the king's house, and he spoke to the king, saying: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Abdemelech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying: |
For Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Bavel, and he shall take it;
Now when `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Binyamin),
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.