THEOSISJeremiah 38:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon: but the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin.
וַיִּשְׁמַ֡ע עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְ הַכּוּשִׁ֜י אִ֣ישׁ סָרִ֗יס וְהוּא֙ בְּבֵ֣ית הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּֽי־נָתְנ֥וּ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ אֶל־הַבּ֑וֹר וְהַמֶּ֥לֶךְ יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּשַׁ֥עַר בִּנְיָמִֽן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 29:2After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the engravers were departed out of Jerusalem:
- Jer 37:13And Jeremiah answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.
- Deut 21:19They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,
- Amos 5:10They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
- Luke 10:30And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who also stripped him and having wounded him went away, leaving him half dead.
- Luke 10:36Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbour to him that fell among the robbers?
- Job 29:7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
- Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.