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2 Kings 25:6-8
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6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah,[a] where he[b] passed sentence on him. 7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch.[c] The king of Babylon[d] then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

8 On the seventh[e] day of the fifth month,[f] in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard,[g] who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:6 sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.
  2. 2 Kings 25:6 tn The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.
  3. 2 Kings 25:7 tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”
  4. 2 Kings 25:7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  5. 2 Kings 25:8 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
  6. 2 Kings 25:8 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.
  7. 2 Kings 25:8 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
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