Ebed-melech
EBED-MELECH
An Ethiopian servant of king Zedekiah, who was instrumental in saving the prophet Jeremiah from famishing in a filthy dungeon, and was therefore preserved when Jerusalem was taken by Nebuzaradan, Jer 38:7-13 ; 39:15-18. The Lord knoweth them that are his.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Ebed-melech
(Hebrews E’bed-Me’lek, , servant of the king, i.e., Arabic Abd el-Malek, Sept. ,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 ( 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.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ebed-melech
a servant of the king; probably an official title, an Ethiopian, “one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house;” i.e., in the palace of Zedekiah, king of Judah. He interceded with the king in Jeremiah’s behalf, and was the means of saving him from death by famine (Jer. 38:7-13: comp. 39:15-18).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Ebed-Melech
(“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).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Ebed-Melech
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.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Ebed-Melech
This man is spoken of with honourable testimony in Scripture, for his service to the prophet Jeremiah. His name shews who he was, Ebed, a servant, Melech, to the king. (See Jer 38:7-13)
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Ebed-Melech
e-bed-melek, eb-ed-melek (, 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).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Ebed-Melech
H5663
An Ethiopian.
Jeremiah rescued by
Jer 38:7-13
Prophecy concerning
Jer 39:16-18
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Ebed-melech
Ebed-melech. (‘bed-m’lek), (thing’s servant, an Ethiopian eunuch in the service of King Zedekiah, through whose interference Jeremiah was released from prison. Jer 38:7 ff; Jer 39:15-16.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Ebed-melech
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).