What Does the Bible Tell Us about King Zedekiah?
Britt Mooney
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2 Kings 25:9
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He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire.
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2 Kings 25:9
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Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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2 Kings 25:9 In-Context
7
They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him [to] Babylon.
8
In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came [to] Jerusalem.
9
He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire.
10
He and all the army of [the] Chaldeans who [were with] the imperial guard tore down the wall of Jerusalem all around.
11
The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported.
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