What Does the Bible Tell Us about King Zedekiah?
Britt Mooney
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2 Kings 25:9
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Nebuzaradan set fire to the Temple of the Lord and the palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building was burned.
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2 Kings 25:9 Meaning and Commentary
2 Kings 25:9
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:8)
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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2 Kings 25:9 In-Context
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They killed Zedekiah's sons as he watched. Then they put out his eyes and put bronze chains on him and took him to Babylon.
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Nebuzaradan was the commander of the king's special guards. This officer of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem on the seventh day of the fifth month, in Nebuchadnezzar's nineteenth year as king of Babylon.
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Nebuzaradan set fire to the Temple of the Lord and the palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building was burned.
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The whole Babylonian army, led by the commander of the king's special guards, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
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Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, captured the people left in Jerusalem, those who had surrendered to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the people.
Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.