“The heart of an Ethiopian is moved by the pitiful condition in which wicked men have left the prophet, and he goes into the king’s presence and represents the wrong that has been done and the danger in which the prophet is in.
The king grants the Ethiopian’s request, and says, “Take from hence
thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out the dungeon before he die.”
What a place that dungeon must have been! A deep pit, used as cistern, perhaps, during part of the year, but now dry, and with a quantity of mud at the bottom, into which the prophet was so sunk that it required not only the strength but the skill of the thirty men to drag him up!”
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(Source: The preacher’s commentary on the Book of Jeremiah(1888))
The Legacy Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian
