2 Kings 25:7
They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
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Genesis 21:16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Do not let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Deuteronomy 28:34so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore the Lord brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,being bound in affliction and iron,
Isaiah 22:3All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
Jeremiah 22:30Thus says the Lord, "Write this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling 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 →