2 Kings 25:7
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
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6And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
Cross References
Genesis 21:16And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.
Deuteronomy 28:34So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.
2 Chronicles 33:11So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
Psalms 107:10Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
Isaiah 22:3All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
Jeremiah 22:30The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 25:2-8
Jerusalem Besieged. ( b. c. 590.) 1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken up,… Read the whole commentary →