Jer 38:7 | HCSB | STEP | But Ebed-melech , a Cushite court official employed in the king’s palace , heard Jeremiah had been put into the cistern . While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate ,

Jeremiah 38:7

7 But Ebed-melech, a ^{▼▼Cush/ Cushite: The lands of the Nile in southern Egypt, including Nubia and Northern Sudan; the people who lived in that region}Cushite court official employed in the king’s palace, heard Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate, ^b