2 Kings 25:7

7 and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 25:7

(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)

2 Kings 25:7 In-Context

5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

6 And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,

7 and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was in the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzar-adan, captain of the body-guard, servant of the king of Babylon, came unto Jerusalem;

9 and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great [man's] house he burned with fire.

Footnotes

• [a] Or 'with double (or 'two') chains of bronze.'