2 Kings 25:7
And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Note put…: Heb. made blind
They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- they slew
- Genesis 21:16; Genesis 44:34; Deuteronomy 28:34; Jeremiah 22:30; Jeremiah 39:6, 7; Jeremiah 52:10, 11
- and put out
- Heb. and made blind. Thus were fulfilled the apparently contradictory prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel--that his eyes should see the king of Babylon, but Babylon he should not see, though he should die there.
- Jeremiah 32:4, 5; Jeremiah 34:3; Ezekiel 12:13–16
- bound him
- Judges 16:21; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36:6; Psalm 107:10, 11; Psalm 149:8; Ezekiel 7:27; Ezekiel 17:16–20