Study 10 who is Ebed-Melech?
@Livingwater Study 10 EBED-MELECH: A WORK OF RESCUE(HELP) (Scripture Portion: Jeremiah 38: 1 –- 13) The prophet Jeremiah was condemned to die (verse 4), and had been confined to prison, which was nothing more or less than a great hole dug in the ground. In this murky dungeon lay the poor prophet of the Lord (verses 6 and 9), and he was even denied food and water (verse 9). When Ebed-Melech, one of the king’s servants, a dark-skinned man of Ethiopia, heard of Jeremiah’s plight he went to the king and pleaded to be allowed to rescue him (verses 8 –- 9). The king not only gave his consent, but he commanded him to take thirty other men with him to deliver Jeremiah (verse 10). Ebed-Melech effected the deliverance, and verses 11 –- 13 describe his great work of rescue. In this simple story we have a wonderful picture of the Lord Jesus, who, away back in eternity, seeing that mankind had been plunged into a dark dungeon of death, went into the presence of the King and offered to engage