Battle of Jericho - Bible Story and Jericho's Significance
Joel Ryan
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2 Kings 25:7
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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.
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2 Kings 25:7 Meaning and Commentary
2 Kings 25:7
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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2 Kings 25:7 In-Context
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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.
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And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,
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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.
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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;
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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 1
- [a] Or 'with double (or 'two') chains of bronze.'
The Darby Translation is in the public domain.