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2 Kings 25:7-9
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7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch.[a] The king of Babylon[b] 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[c] day of the fifth month,[d] in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard,[e] who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.[f]

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  1. 2 Kings 25:7 tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”
  2. 2 Kings 25:7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. 2 Kings 25:8 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
  4. 2 Kings 25:8 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.
  5. 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.
  6. 2 Kings 25:9 tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”
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