Battle of Jericho - Bible Story and Jericho's Significance
Joel Ryan
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2 Kings 25:6
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and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him -- judgment.
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2 Kings 25:6 Meaning and Commentary
2 Kings 25:6
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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2 Kings 25:6 In-Context
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then the city is broken up, and all the men of war [go] by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that [are] by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [are] against the city round about, and [the king] goeth the way of the plain.
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And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him;
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and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him -- judgment.
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And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.
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And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month (it [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners, servant of the king of Babylon, come to Jerusalem,
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain.