Hammelech
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the
prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in
the mire....
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But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD
hid them....
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ham'-e-lek (ha-melekh, "the king"): Wrongly translated as a
proper name in the King James Version. It should be rendered
"the king," as in the American Standard Revised Version (Jer
36:26; 38:6)....
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-Name of a man, or possibly only an appellation, meaning "the
king,"
Jer 36:26; 38:6...
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lit. "the king," unnecessarily rendered in the Authorized
Version as a proper name. Jer 36:26; 38:6...
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the king's, the father of Jerahmeel, mentioned in Jer. 36:26.
Some take this word as a common noun, "the king", and
understand
that Jerahmeel was Jehoiakim's son. Probably, however,
it is to
be taken as a proper name....
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Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 38:6. Jehoiakim at this time (the
fifth year of his reign) had no grown up son. Jeconiah his
successor was then but eleven (2 Kings 23:36; compare 2 Kings
24:8). We must not then, with Smith's Bible Dictionary,
translated "the king," but as a proper name, Hammelech, father
of Jerahmeel and Malchiah....
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