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Raw Blame History

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.