2 Kings 25:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And 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.

2 Kings 25:7 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 32:4-5
And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; …
Psalms 149:8
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Ezekiel 7:27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Psalms 107:10-11
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; …
Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

We left king Zedekiah in rebellion against the king of Babylon (2 Kgs. 24:20), contriving and endeavouring to shake off his yoke, when he was no way able to do it, nor took the right method by making God his friend first. Now here we have an account of the fatal consequences of that attempt. I. The king of Babylon’s army laid siege to Jerusalem, 2 Kgs. 25:1. What should hinder them when the countr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-7. they took the king, and brought him ... to Riblah--Nebuchadnezzar, having gone from the siege to oppose the auxiliary forces of Pharaoh-hophra, left his generals to carry on the blockade, he himself not returning to the scene of action, but taking up his station at Riblah in the land of Hamath (2Ki 23:33). they gave judgment upon him--They, that is, the council (Jr 39:3, 13; Da 6:7, 8, 12), r…