Strong's H4428: מֶלֶךְ (melek) Definition
- Strong's number
- H4428
- Lemma
- מֶלֶךְ
- Transliteration
- melek
- Pronunciation
- meh'-lek
- Strong's definition
- a king king, royal. from H4427 (מָלַךְ);
Jeremiah 38:7 - heard Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian one of the eunuchs house the king that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin
Jeremiah 38:8 - went forth Ebedmelech house out of the king's and spake out of the king's saying
Jeremiah 38:9 - My lord the king have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon and he is like to die in the place for hunger where he is for there is no more bread in the city
Jeremiah 38:10 - commanded Then the king Ebedmelech the Ethiopian saying Take with thee from hence thirty and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he die
Jeremiah 38:11 - and took So Ebedmelech with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury and took and old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down to Jeremiah into the dungeon by cords
Jeremiah 38:14 - sent and the king Then Zedekiah and took Jeremiah the prophet entry unto him into the third that is in the house of the LORD said and the king Jeremiah I will ask thee a thing hide thee a thing
Jeremiah 38:16 - sware the king So Zedekiah unto Jeremiah secretly saying liveth As the LORD that made thy life I will not put thee to death neither will I give thee into the hand that seek thy life
Jeremiah 38:17 - Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah Then said the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel If thou wilt assuredly If thou wilt assuredly princes unto the king of Babylon's and thou shalt live then thy soul and this city shall not be burned with fire and thou shalt live and thine house
Jeremiah 38:18 - But if thou wilt not go forth princes to the king of Babylon's be given then shall this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and they shall burn it with fire and thou shalt not escape out into the hand
Jeremiah 38:19 - said the king And Zedekiah unto Jeremiah I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans lest they deliver me into their hand and they mock
Jeremiah 38:22 - And behold all the women that are left house in the king of Judah's shall be brought forth princes in the king of Babylon's and those women shall say have set thee on and have prevailed are sunk in the mire against thee thy feet and they are turned away back
Jeremiah 38:23 - all thy wives and thy children So they shall bring out to the Chaldeans and thou shalt not escape out by the hand by the hand of the king of Babylon but shalt be taken and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire
Jeremiah 38:25 - hear But if the princes said with thee and they come unto thee and say unto thee Declare said also what the king hide it not from us and we will not put thee to death said also what the king
Jeremiah 38:26 - Then thou shalt say unto them I presented my supplication before the king that he would not cause me to return house to Jonathan's to die
Jeremiah 38:27 - Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah and asked him and he told them according to all these words had commanded that the king So they left off speaking was not perceived them according to all these words
Jeremiah 39:1 - year In the ninth of Zedekiah king of Judah month in the tenth came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem and they besieged
Jeremiah 39:3 - came in And all the princes of the king of Babylon and sat gate in the middle Nergalsharezer Samgarnebo Sarsechim Rabsaris Nergalsharezer Rabmag with all the residue And all the princes of the king of Babylon
Jeremiah 39:4 - saw And it came to pass that when Zedekiah of the king's of Judah them and all the men of war then they fled and he went out by night out of the city by the way garden of the king's by the gate betwixt the two walls and he went out by the way of the plain
Jeremiah 39:5 - pursued army But the Chaldeans after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho and when they had taken him they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he gave judgment
Jeremiah 39:6 - slew Then the king of Babylon the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes all the nobles of Judah slew Then the king of Babylon