Ears Gedaliah Gedali'ah Jehucal Jeremiah Jucal Malchiah Malchi'ah Malchijah Malkijah Mattan Pashhur Pashur Saying Shelemiah Shelemi'ah Shephatiah Shephati'ah Spake Speaking Spoke Spoken Telling
38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of {a} Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,
(a) For Zedekiah had sent these to Jeremiah to enquire at the Lord for the state of the country how when Nebuchadnezzar came, as in Jer 21:1.
38:1-13 Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's faithful ministers as enemies, because they show what enemies the wicked are to themselves while impenitent. Jeremiah was put into a dungeon. Many of God's faithful witnesses have been privately made away in prisons. Ebed-melech was an Ethiopian; yet he spoke to the king faithfully, These men have done ill in all they have done to Jeremiah. See how God can raise up friends for his people in distress. Orders were given for the prophet's release, and Ebed-melech saw him drawn up. Let this encourage us to appear boldly for God. Special notice is taken of his tenderness for Jeremiah. What do we behold in the different characters then, but the same we behold in the different characters now, that the Lord's children are conformed to his example, and the children of Satan to their master?
Gedaliah Gedali'ah Heard Jehucal Jeremiah Malchiah Malchi'ah Malchijah Malkijah Mattan Pashhur Pashur Shelemiah Shelemi'ah Shephatiah Shephati'ah Speaking Telling Words
Gedaliah Gedali'ah Heard Jehucal Jeremiah Malchiah Malchi'ah Malchijah Malkijah Mattan Pashhur Pashur Shelemiah Shelemi'ah Shephatiah Shephati'ah Speaking Telling Words
