Jeremiah 52:11 BSB — MannaFest

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.

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ASV

And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

KJV

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah,.... After he had seen his children and princes executed, which must be very terrible to him; See Gill on Jer 39:7; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon; in Jer 39:7; it is said, he bound him, "to carry him" there; here it is affirmed he did carry him thither: and it is added, and put him in prison till the day of his death; from this place only we learn that King Zedekiah was put into a prison, and died a prisoner.

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Put him in prison ... - Not found in 2 Kings, for in the contemporaneous history what befell Zedekiah at Riblah would alone be known. It was no doubt added by the same hand which inserted the account of the deportations to Babylon.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Eze 12:13: "I will bring him to Babylon . . . yet shall he not see it." prison--literally, "the house of visitations," or "punishments," that is, where there was penal work enforced on the prisoners, such as grinding. Hence the Septuagint renders it "the house of the mill." So Samson, after his eyes were put out, "ground" in the Philistine prison-house (Jud 16:21).

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Original language & word study

16 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 →
וַיַּאַסְרֵ֣הוּ	vai.ya.'as.Re.hu	and he bound him	H631 →
בַֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֗יִם	van.chush.Ta.yim	with <the> bronze fetters	H5178 →
וַיְבִאֵ֤הוּ	vay.vi.'E.hu	and he brought him	H935 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[the] king of	H4428 →
בָּבֶל֙	ba.Vel	Babylon	H894 →
בָּבֶ֔לָה	ba.Ve.lah	Babylon towards	H894 →
וַיִּתְּנֵ֥הוּ	vai.yi.te.Ne.hu	and he put him	H5414 →
בֵֽית	veit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
הַפְּקֻדֹּ֖ת	ha.pe.ku.Dot	<the> punishment<s>	H6486 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
י֥וֹם	Yom	[the] day of	H3117 →
מוֹתֽוֹ׃	mo.To	death his	H4194 →

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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…
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- Jeremiah 39:7
  Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
- 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.
- Isaiah 24:17–18
  Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
- 2 Kings 25:5–7
  but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

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PlaceBabil Governorate (archaeological site)BabylonAncient Mesopotamian city and imperial capital; site of the Israelite exile and a recurring biblical symbol of worldly power.

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