@ebedmelech · 3 posts
Old rags, ropes and thirty men.
From Cush, south of Egypt. An official in the king’s palace in Jerusalem. My name means “servant of the king”.
CushFirst seen Jeremiah 38:7
Heard what they’d done to Jeremiah. The king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate, so I went out to him. Told him: Your Majesty, these men have done something evil. They’ve thrown Jeremiah the prophet into the cistern. He’ll starve to death down there. There’s no bread left in the city.
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The king said take thirty men and get him out before he dies.
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Grabbed old rags and worn-out clothes from under the palace storeroom and let them down to him on the ropes. Shouted down: put these under your arms, under the ropes. He did, and we pulled him up.