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So they seized the king. They brought him to the king of Babylon in Riblah, and a sentence was pronounced on him. They slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and then Zedekiah was blinded. They bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

Jerusalem Destroyed and the People Deported

In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,[a] an officer of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:8 Hebrew rab tabahim. The exact equivalent of this foreign title is unknown, but it probably designates the chief executioner.