9Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
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So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)This narrative begins no higher than the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, though there were two captivities before, one in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the other in the first of Jeconiah; but probably it was drawn up by some of those that were carried away with Zedekiah, as a reproach to themselves for imagining that they should not go into captivity after their brethren, with which hopes they…
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