Ebed - melech learned that the princes of Judah had wrongly charged the prophet Jeremiah with sedition and had thrown him into a cistern, there to die without food.
एबेदमेलेक, यिर्मयाह नबी के समय में जीया था और यहूदा के विश्‍वासघाती राजा, सिदकिय्याह के घराने का सेवक था ।