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2 Kings 25:7

ZedekiahBabylon

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.

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

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:

9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

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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

    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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  • Genesis 44:34

    For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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  • Psalms 149:8

    To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

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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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  • Judges 16:21

    But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

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  • Psalms 107:10–11

    Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

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  • Jeremiah 22:30

    Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

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  • Jeremiah 52:10–11

    And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

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