What his own name was we know not, for among the royal servants he was known only as Ebed-melech, "the king's slave." Whether he was of the original Hamitic or of the invading Semitic stock we cannot conjecture, save that, from his position, there is an inherent probability that he was of the former. But no son of Israel is he only a slave of the royal household, a heathen from a far-off land, with a black skin but a pure heart. One man's voice is raised, one man's hand works. Left to die and rot in the dungeon's mud! No. Into the slime of its unfloored depths he sinks, and there he lies. The prophet is cast into a dungeon, deep and loathsome. THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH BROUGHT THE TWO TOGETHER AND CAUSED THE STRANGE CONJUNCTION.
The slave and the prophet in our thought abide together. Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon…Ī slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet an efficient protector.
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