Ebed - melech, a eunuch in the house of King Zedekiah, risked his life for Jeremiah. The king had surrendered Jeremiah to the princes of Judah, who falsely charged him with sedition and cast him into a miry cistern, there to die.
राजा सिदकिय्याह के महल में काम करनेवाले एक खोजे एबेदमेलेक ने यिर्मयाह की जान बचाने के लिए अपनी जान का खतरा मोल लिया ।