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# Now Ebed-Melek
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The word "now" is used here to mark a break in the main story line. Here the narrator starts to tell a new part of the story.
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# Ebed-Melek the Cushite
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This is the name of a man from Cush. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# Now the king
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Here the word "now" marks a break in the main story line where the narrator tells background information about what the king was doing. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])
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# sitting at the Benjamin Gate
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King Zedekiah was probably hearing and judging legal cases. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# Benjamin Gate
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This is an entrance into the city of Jerusalem that people named after Benjamin, Jacob's son.
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/cush]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/eunuch]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/house]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/benjamin]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/gate]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/lord]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/prophet]]