Study it in the app“Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, “Take with you from here thirty men, and bring up Jeremiah the prophet from the cistern before he dies.””
Jeremiah sinks in the mud of a cistern and Ebed-melech brings him outLoneliness
Then the kingוַ הַמֶּלֶךְcommandedיְצַוֶּהEbed-melechאֵת עֶבֶד מֶלֶךְthe Cushite,הַכּוּשִׁיsaying,לֵאמֹר“Takeקַחwith youבְּיָדְךָfrom hereמִזֶּהthirtyשְׁלֹשִׁיםmen,אֲנָשִׁיםand bring upוְהַעֲלִיתָJeremiahאֶת יִרְמְיָהוּthe prophetהַנָּבִיאfrom the cisternמִן הַבּוֹרbeforeבְּטֶרֶםhe dies.”יָמוּת
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “yetsave” appearsEbed-melech
Ebed-melech: a name meaning "servant of the king"; a Cushite official of King Zedekiah who rescued Jeremiah from the cistern.
Where else “eved” appearsCushite
Cushite: a person from Cush, the region south of Egypt (toward present-day Sudan). Joab's messenger is called this (2 Samuel 18), and so is Ebed-melech, who pulled Jeremiah out of the cistern (Jeremiah 38). In the plural, the Cushites as a people. It says nothing good or bad about the person, only where they come from.
Where else “kushi” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “kach” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yad” appearsthirty
Thirty; also "thirtieth".
Where else “sheloshim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appearsbring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “haalita” appearsJeremiah
Jeremiah: a name meaning "YHWH raises up" or "YHWH exalts," borne by several men: best known is the prophet, son of Hilkiah, from Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1); in 2 Kings 23:31 and 24:18 another Jeremiah, of Libnah, grandfather of two kings.
Where else “yirmyahu” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “navi” appearsdungeon
An empty pit used as a prison.
Where else “bor” appearsnot yet, before
Not yet; before.
Where else “terem” appearsdie
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “yamut” appears9“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have thrown into the cistern; and he will die where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.”
10 · This verse (above)
11So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king, to a place under the treasury, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, and let them down to Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes.
