2 Kings 25:7

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7 ¹They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then ²put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought 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

5 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.

6 Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him.

7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.

8 Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

9 He burned the house of the LORD , the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

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1. Jeremiah 39:6, 7
2. Ezekiel 12:13