Like him, also, he renewed relations with Abîmelech of Gerar.
The mention of the covenant of Abraham with Abîmelech belongs to the oldest part of the national tradition, and is given to us in the Jehovistic narrative.
A few days later Zedekiah requested Ebed-melech to bring Jeremiah to him, secretly.
Baruch was found among the living in Riblah and Ebed-melech at the camp in Ramah.
In the tumult that reigned within the palace Hilkiah, Ebed-melech and their burdens were not noticed by the conspirators.
Ebed-melech was given free access to his cell at all times.
Ebed-melech was at his heels, asking what was wrong.
In a hopeless sort of voice he simply sent Jeremiah back to the guard house, where Ebed-melech continued looking after him.
He had not seen Ebed-melech or Baruch for several days.
Three days later, however, Ebed-melech brought with the provisions the news that Jehoiakim had burned the scroll.
Ebed-melech hung around the sepulcher of his beloved master for many days.
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, "Put now these old clothes and rags under thine arms under the cords.
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the storehouse, and took thence old clothes and old rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
When Cohr-Eddin, returning from his unsuccessful suit to the heiress of Jerusalem, found that his brother had been sent to Egypt, he was confirmed in the suspicion that his rival was no other than Melech Camel.
The generous Melech Camel acceded to this proposal.
Melech Camel, obliged to escape for safety, fled over to Arabia, and thence directed his course toward Syria.
The Saracen gravely replied, "The Melech Ric wrongs the errand of his servant, if he discern not in his ransomed captive, one whom he hath made his friend.
He reached the city at the critical moment when, wearied with the strife, the Templars had begun to negotiate with Melech Bendocar upon the terms of a capitulation.
The Arab horseman threatens his steed with the weight of King Richard's arm, the Saracen mother hushes her babe with the fear of the Melech Ric, and blesses her daughter with the benison, 'Allah make thee fair as Berengaria.
While the valiant Melech Camel was thus engaged in the gallant defence of his dominions, the death of Saif-Eddin deprived him of the counsels and assistance of the most successful chieftain that ever ruled the East.
The chief emirs who, attracted by curiosity or admiration, visited the court of the British Lion, returned with the most exaggerated accounts of the urbanity and prowess of the gallant "Melech Ric.
Now, when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house.
When the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian.
Adar-melech and Nergal-sharezer, who were jealous of the favour shown by him towards their younger brother Esar-haddon.
As Khanun appeared at the court along with Kavus-melech of Edom, Metinti of Ashkelon, Solomon of Moab, and Sanib of Ammon, he must have succeeded in obtaining a pardon.
The king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take with thee hence thirty men, and draw up Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern, before he die.
But the princes were again baffled; the prophet had friends in the royal household who were bolder than their master: Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an eunuch, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern.
He would be in worse plight than that from which Jeremiah had only just been rescued, and there would no Ebed-melech to draw him out.
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the palace under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the cistern to Jeremiah.
Ebed-Melech told the king that Jeremiah was dying of starvation, and Zedekiah bade him take three[865] men with him and rescue the dying man.
Finally Ebed-melech realized that God had performed a great miracle for him, so that he had been spared the sight of Israel's misfortune.
To such sneers Jeremiah made no reply, and hence it was that Ebed-melech was left unanswered.
Ebed-melech reached the spot, but the heat was so intense that he fell asleep under a tree, and there he slept for sixty-six years.
Ebed-melech hastened to the king and spoke: "Know, if Jeremiah perishes in the lime pit, Jerusalem will surely be captured.
Still more miraculous was the deliverance of the pious Ethiopian Ebed-melech from the hands of the Babylonians.
In brief words he told Ebed-melech of the destruction of the Temple and of the captivity of the people, but what he said found no credence with his auditor.
Ebed-melech had come to rescue him from his perilous position.
Melech means king, and Malcha queen, which they pronounce Molicus and Imilcis.
The first part of his name was evidently derived from Melech of the Hebrews, for almost by the same word Hercules was known among the Amathusians.
Saladin will hold treaty with none but the Melech Ric, and with him he will treat like a prince, or fight like a champion.
The Melech Ric is welcome to Saladin as water to this desert.
Might I request to see the Melech Ric strike one blow with it in peace, and in pure trial of strength?
Yet each land hath its own exercises, and this may be new to the Melech Ric.
The Latine title of Mulciber was a compound of Melech Aber, Rex, Parens lucis.
I take the name of Amalek to have been Ham [268]Melech abbreviated: a title taken by the Amalekites from the head of their family.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melech" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
