THE TWO ETHIOPIAN EUNUCHS

THE TWO ETHIOPIAN EUNUCHS
By Duane V. Maxey

 Yes, there are two such mentioned in the Bible -- the one mentioned in Acts 8, and previously, the one mentioned in Jeremiah 38.  Read more about them both below:

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01 -- THE ACTS 8:27-39 ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH WAS NOT ALONE

 One online writer said his going to Jerusalem and back involved "a long journey for not only himself but for his ENTIRE ENTOURAGE. He was a Cabinet Minister to the Queen, and WOULD NEVER TRAVEL ALONE" (Jim Cole-Rous).  Interestingly, the same write said, Perhaps he went on reading and found Isaiah 56:3-5! “And do not let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree… I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.”

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02 -- THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH OF Jeremiah 38:7-13

 So much emphasis is made about the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts, that, like me, many have taken less notice of the Ethiopian Eunuch of Jeremiah:

 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
 8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
 9 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; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
 12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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 So from the Bible Accounts of them, both of these individuals were of noble character, and worthy of our esteem.  Hopefully, they shall be among the redeemed in Heaven. -- Bro. Duane