Isaiah 39:7
And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 24:12And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings 25:6So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.
2 Chronicles 36:10And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his uncle king over Juda and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 39:7He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with fetters, to be carried to Babylon.
Daniel 1:1In the third year of the reign of Joakim, king of Juda, Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, and beseiged it.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 39:6-8
Hezekiah's Vanity Punished. ( b. c. 712.) 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: 6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord . 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord… Read the whole commentary →