'For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword,
but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy
trust in Me, saith the Lord.'--JER. xxxix. 18.
Ebedmelech is a singular anticipation of that other Ethiopian eunuch
whom Philip met on the desert road to Gaza. It is prophetic that on the
eve of the fall of the nation, a heathen man should be entering into
union with God. It is a picture in little of the rejection of Israel
and the ingathering of the Gentiles.