Ebed-Melech
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the king's servant
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
EBED-MELECH.An Ethiop. ennuch, by whom Jeremiah was released from the pit-prison (Jer_38:7 ff; Jer_39:15 ff.). It is possible that the name Ebed-melech, which means servant of [the] king. may have been an official title.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("king's stare".) (An oriental phrase), an Ethiopian eunuch of king Zedekiah, instrumental in Jeremiah's deliverance out of Malchiah's dungeon pit. Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian Gentile slave, did that which none of Jeremiah's own countrymen attempted in his behalf. Often God raises friends to His people from quarters from whence least they could expect it. Ebedmelech's courageous interference in Jeremiah's behalf, at a time when he might naturally fear the wrath of the princes to which even the king had to yield (Jer_38:4-13; Jer_39:16-18), brought deliverance not only to the prophet, but ultimately to himself as his reward from God.
None ever loses by being bold for God (Mat_10:42). He might have spoken privately to the king, as being over the king's harem (Nubians being chosen for that office to the present day), but Ebed-melech "went forth out of the king's house to the gate of Benjamin," and there spoke publicly to the king, "these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city."
With 30 men to guard against the princes' opposition, and by means of torn clothes and worn garments ("cast clouts and rotten rags," for God chooses weak things to confound the mighty, 1Co_1:27-29), he raised Jeremiah up from the pit. So when his enemies should perish God promised Ebedmelech should be saved, "because thou hast put thy trust in Me" (compare 1Ch_5:20; Psa_37:40). Trust in God generates fearlessness of man and brings true safety for eternity, and often even here (Jeremiah 39). So shall they be rewarded who have visited Christ, in the person of His servants, in prison (Mat_25:34 ff).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
E'bed-me'lech. (a king's servant). An Ethiopian eunuch, in the service of King Zedekiah, through whose interference Jeremiah was released from prison. Jer_38:7. ff.; Jer_39:15. ff. (B.C. 1589).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ē-bed-mē?lek, eb-ed-mē?lek (עבד־מלך, ‛ebhedh-mekekh, ?servant of the king? or ?of (god) Melek?): An Ethiopian eunuch in the service of King Zedekiah, who interceded with the king for the prophet Jeremiah and rescued him from the dungeon into which he had been cast to die (Jer_38:7-13). For this, the word of Yahweh through Jeremiah promised Ebed-meleeh that his life should be spared in the fall of Jerusalem (Jer_39:15-18).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ebed-melech
(Hebrews E'bed-Me'lek, עֶבֶדמֶלֶךְ, servant of the king, i.e., Arabic Abd el-Malek, Sept. Α᾿βδεμέλεχ,Vulgate Abdemelech), an Ethiopian at the court of Zedekiah, king of Judah, who was instrumental in saving the prophet Jeremiah from death by famine (Jer_38:7-13), and who, for his humanity in this circumstance, was promised deliverance when the city should fall into the enemy's hands (Jer_39:15-18). B.C. 589. SEE JEREMIAH. He is there styled a eunuch ( אַישׁ סָרַיס and he probably had charge of the king's harem (compare Jer_38:22-23), an office which would give him the privilege of free private access to the king; but his name seems to be an official title = King's slave, i.e., minister. SEE EUNUCH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
EBED-MELECH.An Ethiop. ennuch, by whom Jeremiah was released from the pit-prison (Jer_38:7 ff; Jer_39:15 ff.). It is possible that the name Ebed-melech, which means servant of [the] king. may have been an official title.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("king's stare".) (An oriental phrase), an Ethiopian eunuch of king Zedekiah, instrumental in Jeremiah's deliverance out of Malchiah's dungeon pit. Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian Gentile slave, did that which none of Jeremiah's own countrymen attempted in his behalf. Often God raises friends to His people from quarters from whence least they could expect it. Ebedmelech's courageous interference in Jeremiah's behalf, at a time when he might naturally fear the wrath of the princes to which even the king had to yield (Jer_38:4-13; Jer_39:16-18), brought deliverance not only to the prophet, but ultimately to himself as his reward from God.
None ever loses by being bold for God (Mat_10:42). He might have spoken privately to the king, as being over the king's harem (Nubians being chosen for that office to the present day), but Ebed-melech "went forth out of the king's house to the gate of Benjamin," and there spoke publicly to the king, "these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city."
With 30 men to guard against the princes' opposition, and by means of torn clothes and worn garments ("cast clouts and rotten rags," for God chooses weak things to confound the mighty, 1Co_1:27-29), he raised Jeremiah up from the pit. So when his enemies should perish God promised Ebedmelech should be saved, "because thou hast put thy trust in Me" (compare 1Ch_5:20; Psa_37:40). Trust in God generates fearlessness of man and brings true safety for eternity, and often even here (Jeremiah 39). So shall they be rewarded who have visited Christ, in the person of His servants, in prison (Mat_25:34 ff).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
E'bed-me'lech. (a king's servant). An Ethiopian eunuch, in the service of King Zedekiah, through whose interference Jeremiah was released from prison. Jer_38:7. ff.; Jer_39:15. ff. (B.C. 1589).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ē-bed-mē?lek, eb-ed-mē?lek (עבד־מלך, ‛ebhedh-mekekh, ?servant of the king? or ?of (god) Melek?): An Ethiopian eunuch in the service of King Zedekiah, who interceded with the king for the prophet Jeremiah and rescued him from the dungeon into which he had been cast to die (Jer_38:7-13). For this, the word of Yahweh through Jeremiah promised Ebed-meleeh that his life should be spared in the fall of Jerusalem (Jer_39:15-18).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ebed-melech
(Hebrews E'bed-Me'lek, עֶבֶדמֶלֶךְ, servant of the king, i.e., Arabic Abd el-Malek, Sept. Α᾿βδεμέλεχ,Vulgate Abdemelech), an Ethiopian at the court of Zedekiah, king of Judah, who was instrumental in saving the prophet Jeremiah from death by famine (Jer_38:7-13), and who, for his humanity in this circumstance, was promised deliverance when the city should fall into the enemy's hands (Jer_39:15-18). B.C. 589. SEE JEREMIAH. He is there styled a eunuch ( אַישׁ סָרַיס and he probably had charge of the king's harem (compare Jer_38:22-23), an office which would give him the privilege of free private access to the king; but his name seems to be an official title = King's slave, i.e., minister. SEE EUNUCH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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