Jeremiah 52:11

11 He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Jeremiah 52:11 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 52:11

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah
After he had seen his children and princes executed, which must be very terrible to him; (See Gill on Jeremiah 39:7); and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to
Babylon;
in ( Jeremiah 39:7 ) ; it is said, he bound him, "to carry him" there; here it is affirmed he did carry him thither: and it is added, and put him in prison till the day of his death;
from this place only we learn that King Zedekiah was put into a prison, and died a prisoner.

Jeremiah 52:11 In-Context

9 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him.

10 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

11 He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

13 He burned the house of the Lord and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.