Ebed - melech’s godly qualities were put to the test when evil princes falsely accused Jeremiah of sedition and threw him into a miry cistern, leaving him to die.
در چنین شرایطی بود که رابطهٔ عَبَدْمَلَک با خدا در بوتهٔ آزمایش قرار گرفت .‏