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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
בְּנֵי֙be.Nei[the] sons ofH1121 →
צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּtzid.ki.Ya.huZedekiahH6667 →
שָׁחֲט֖וּsha.cha.Tuthey slaughteredH7819 →
לְעֵינָ֑יוle.'ei.Navto eyes hisH5869 →
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
עֵינֵ֤י'ei.Nei[the] eyes ofH5869 →
צִדְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙tzid.ki.Ya.huZedekiahH6667 →
עִוֵּ֔ר'i.Verhe made blindH5786 →
וַיַּאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙vai.ya.'as.Re.huand he bound himH631 →
בַֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִםvan.chush.Ta.yimwith <the> bronze fettersH5178 →
וַיְבִאֵ֖הוּvay.vi.'E.huand he brought himH935 →
בָּבֶֽל׃ סba.VelBabylonH894 →

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Ecclesiastes 4:14For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.Jeremiah 32:4–5Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.Jeremiah 39:6There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.Jeremiah 39:7Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.Jeremiah 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”Jeremiah 52:10There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.Jeremiah 20:4For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.Ezekiel 17:16–20‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.Ezekiel 12:13–16But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.Judges 16:21Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.Ezekiel 7:27The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”Psalms 149:8to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,Jeremiah 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”2 Chronicles 33:11So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.Jeremiah 39:6–7There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.Deuteronomy 28:34You will be driven mad by the sights you see.Genesis 44:34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”Genesis 21:16Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

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Zedekiah's Sons Are Slaughtered before His Eyes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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