Jeremiah 38:8

Jeremiah chapter 38 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Ebed–melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,

Context

v.7Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

v.8This passage

v.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 in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.