# Now Ebed-Melek

This marks a stop in the main story. The narrator starts to tell a new part of the story.

# Ebed-Melek the Cushite

This is the name of a man from Cush.

# Now the king

The narrator tells background information about what the king was doing.

# sitting at the Benjamin Gate

King Zedekiah was probably hearing and judging legal cases.

# Benjamin Gate

This is an entrance into the city of Jerusalem that people named after Benjamin, Jacob's son.