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2 Kings 25:6

BabylonRiblah

4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.

So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

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BSB
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
KJV
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
WEB
Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
ASV
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
DARBY
And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,
BLB
And they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.
ÅB
Og de grep kongen og førte ham opp til Babels konge i Ribla og avsa dom over ham[^3].
OTB
Så tok de kongen og førte ham til kongen av Babylon i Ribla, hvor han ble dømt.
B1930
Og de grep kongen og førte ham op til Babels konge i Ribla og avsa dom over ham. / < fordi han hadde brutt sin ed til Babels konge, 2KR 36, 13. ESK 17, 15 fg.>

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  • 2 Kings 23:33

    And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

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  • Jeremiah 34:21–22

    And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.

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  • Ezekiel 17:20–21

    And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

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  • 2 Chronicles 33:11

    Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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  • Jeremiah 21:7

    And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

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  • Ezekiel 21:25–27

    And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

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  • Jeremiah 32:4

    And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

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  • Jeremiah 52:9

    Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

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