Jeremiah 38:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Jeremiah 38:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 8:7
Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Psalms 75:10
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Esther 5:2
And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

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Arrest Criminals Cush Cushan Ethiopia Eunuch Imprisonment Jeremiah

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Here, 1. Jeremiah persists in his plain preaching; what he had many a time said, he still says (Jer. 38:3): This city shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon; though it hold out long, it will taken at last. Nor would he have so often repeated this unwelcome message but that he could put them in a certain way, though not to save the city, yet to save themselves; so that every man might…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. with thee--Hebrew, “in thine hand,” that is, at “thy disposal” (1Sa 16:2). “From hence,” that is, from the gate of Benjamin where the king was sitting (Jr 38:7). thirty men--not merely to draw up Jeremiah, but to guard Ebed-melech against any opposition on the part of the princes (Jr 38:1-4), in executing the king’s command. Ebed-melech was rewarded for his faith, love, and courage, exhibited…