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2 Kings 25:7

ZedekiahBabylon

5 but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

6 The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.

And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

9 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

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BSB
And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
KJV
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.
WEB
They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
ASV
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
DARBY
and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
BLB
And the sons of Zedekiah they killed before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he put out, and he bound him with bronze fetters and took him to Babylon.
ÅB
De drepte Sedekias' sønner for hans øyne, og han lot Sedekias selv blinde og lot ham binde med to kobberlenker; så førte de ham til Babel.
OTB
Og de slaktet sønnene til Sidkia foran hans øyne, så stakk de ut øynene til Sidkia og bandt ham med bronse lenker, og førte ham til Babylon.
B1930
De drepte Sedekias' sønner for hans øine, og han lot Sedekias selv blinde og lot ham binde med to kobberlenker; så førte de ham til Babel.

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  • Jeremiah 32:4–5

    Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.

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  • Genesis 44:34

    For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

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  • Psalms 149:8

    to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,

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  • 2 Chronicles 33:11

    So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

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  • Judges 16:21

    Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

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  • Psalms 107:10–11

    Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

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  • Jeremiah 22:30

    This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”

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  • Jeremiah 52:10–11

    There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.

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