Ebed-Melech was a eunuch during the time of Zedekiah (King of Judah). He was a Cushite. When Jeremiah (prophet) was hated and thrown into a pit, Ebed-Melech pulled him out and allowed him to stay in the court of the guard.
Jeremiah 38:6Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),Jeremiah 38:7Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,Jeremiah 38:8“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”Jeremiah 38:9Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.”Jeremiah 38:10So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.Jeremiah 38:11Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.” Jeremiah did so.Jeremiah 38:12So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.Jeremiah 38:13Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”
이후 느부갓네살이 침략해오자 예리미야가 하나님의 말씀을 에벳멜렉에게 전했다.
Jeremiah 39:16But I will deliver you in that day,” says Yahweh; “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.