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God Rewards Courageous Faith
Commentators explain that God's promise to Ebed-melech was a direct reward for his actions. His kindness to Jeremiah was not just a good deed, but an act of faith. As John Calvin notes, this act stemmed from his trust in God. This serves as an encouragement for believers that God sees and honors acts of service done in His name, even when they involve personal risk.
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Jeremiah
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Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 39:16
19th Century
Bishop
Go and speak to Ebed-melech. —It lies in the nature of the case that the prophet, when he put this prediction, given during the progress o…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 39:15–18
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet tells us here that God was not unmindful of the Ethiopian by whom he had been preserved, even though he was an alien and from a foreign…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 39:16
17th Century
Pastor
Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopians
Not that the prophet was to go, or could go, out of prison, to deliver thi…
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Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 39:15–18
17th Century
Minister
Here is a message to assure Ebed-melech of a recompense for his great kindness to Jeremiah. Because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lo…