Jeremiah 39:7 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 39:7

Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

BSB

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ASV

Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

KJV

Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
עֵינֵ֥י	'ei.Nei	[the] eyes of	H5869 →
צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ	tzid.ki.Ya.hu	Zedekiah	H6667 →
עִוֵּ֑ר	'i.Ver	he made blind	H5786 →
וַיַּאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙	vai.ya.'as.Re.hu	and he bound him	H631 →
בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִם	ban.chush.Ta.yim	with <the> bronze fetters	H5178 →
לָבִ֥יא	la.Vi'	to take	H935 →
אֹת֖וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
בָּבֶֽלָה׃	ba.Ve.lah	Babylon towards	H894 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Judges 16:21
Then 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.
leads to
- Proverbs 2:19
  None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
- Proverbs 14:14
  The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
- Isaiah 47:2
  Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- Matthew 24:41
  Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
- Exodus 11:5
  and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well…
Through
Jeremiah 52:11
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
leads to
- Ezekiel 12:13
  But 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…
Through
Ezekiel 12:13
But 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…
leads to
- Ezekiel 17:20
  I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.
- Hosea 7:12
  As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.