Ebed-melech - that is, the king’s slave. By “Ethiopian” or Cushite is meant the Cushite of Africa, or negro. It seems (compare [Reference 2 …

Ebed-melech the Ethiopian.— The name signifies “servant of the king,” but the absence of the article in the Hebrew makes it probab…

Jeremiah relates here how he was delivered from death, for he could not have lived long in the mire; partly because he would have died from lack, a…

Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian
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Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's faithful ministers …

This section shows the persecution of the prophet because of his true prediction, and it is divided into three parts.

1. First, he gi…