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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/jit/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/jit/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/jit/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.
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