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2 Kings 25:7 In-Context
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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
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Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
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They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.
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In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
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And he burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.