Jeremiah 38:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,

Jeremiah 38:8 —

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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. 8)

8. went forth ... and spake--not privately, but in public; a proof of fearless magnanimity.