What Does the Bible Tell Us about King Zedekiah?
Britt Mooney
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2 Kings 25:21
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and the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
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2 Kings 25:21 Meaning and Commentary
2 Kings 25:21
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:18)
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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2 Kings 25:21 In-Context
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And out of the city he took a chamberlain that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.
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And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
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and the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
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And [as for] the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left behind, over them he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.
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And all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
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- [a] or 'from their soil.'
The Darby Translation is in the public domain.