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Serve the “King of the Nations” and SurviveThe Watchtower—1980 | February 1
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14. (a) As to skin color, what was Ebed-melech? (b) Why did he not try to escape from Jerusalem with his royal master?
14 Ebed-melech did not try to escape from Jerusalem along with his royal master, Zedekiah. He was an Ethiopian, the kind of man about whom Jeremiah asked the question, “Can a Cushite [or, Ethiopian] change his skin? or a leopard its spots?” (Jer. 13:23, NW marginal reading) Ebed-melech was a Black,a and in Byington’s Bible translation he is called “ʽEbed-Melec the Negro.” (Jer. 38:7, 12; 39:16, The Bible in Living English)
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Serve the “King of the Nations” and SurviveThe Watchtower—1980 | February 1
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a According to A Greek-English Lexicon, compiled by Liddell and Scott (1948), the Greek word for Ethiopian (Aithiops) means “Burntface, i.e. Ethiopian, negro, Homer, etc.”
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