Now Ebed-melech—an Ethiopian official in the king’s palace—heard they had put Jeremiah in the pit. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,
Deuteronomy 21:19 - Tree of Life Version Then his father and mother are to grab hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city—to the gate of his place. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 Ebed-melech—an Ethiopian official in the king’s palace—heard they had put Jeremiah in the pit. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,
If anyone still prophesies his father and his mother to whom he was born will say to him, ‘You cannot live because you tell lies in the Name of Adonai.’ When he prophesies, his own father and mother, the ones who bore him, will pierce him through.
“Judges and officers you are to appoint within all your gates that Adonai your God is giving you, according to your tribes; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
“Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not listen to the voice of his father or mother. They discipline him, but he does not listen to them.
Then your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance to the towns that are around the slain one.
They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious—he does not listen to our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’
But if the man does not want to take his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow is to go to the elders at the gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel—he is unwilling to perform a brother-in-law’s duty for me.’