Ebed-melech] Chap. 39. 16. the Ethiopian] Heb. Cushite. Numbers 12:1. Chap. 13. 23. one of the eunuchs which was in the kings house] Isaiah 39:7. heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dngeon] The businesse yet was not so closely kept, or covertly carried, but that by Gods good providence it came unto this godly courtiers eare. king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin] To receive petitions, hear causes, and passe censures: the gate being the ordinary place of audience and judicature. Deuteronomy 17:2; Deuteronomy 17:8. 2 Samuel 19:8. Lamentations 5:13. See Chap. 37. 13.