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Jeremiah 38:9 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 38 · verse 9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, 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.Jeremiah 38:9 · King James Version
Jeremiah 38:9 in context
7Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
8Ebedmelech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,
9My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, 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.
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.
11So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JeremiahYirmᵉyâhJirmejah, the name of eight or nine IsraelitesH3414 →
- prophetnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- dungeonbôwra pit holeH953 →
- hungerrâʻâbhungerH7458 →
- lordʼâdôwnsovereignH113 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13