2 Kings 24:20-25:7
1599 Geneva Bible
20 Therefore certainly the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem and Judah, until he cast them out of his [a]sight. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
25 1 Jerusalem is besieged of Nebuchadnezzar, and taken. 7 The sons of Zedekiah are slain before his eyes, and after are his own eyes put out. 11 Judah is brought to Babylon. 25 Gedaliah is slain. 27 Jehoiachin is exalted.
1 (A)And in the [b]ninth year of his reign, the [c]tenth month, and tenth day of the month Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and they built [d]forts against it round about it.
2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 And the ninth day of the month the famine was [e]sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night, by the way of the [f]gate, which is between two walls that was by the king’s garden: now the Chaldeans were by the city round about: and the king went by the way of the wilderness.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and took him in the deserts of Jericho, and all his host was scattered from him.
6 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah, where they [g]gave judgment upon him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 24:20 Out of Jerusalem and Judah into Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:1 That is, of Zedekiah.
- 2 Kings 25:1 Which the Hebrews call Tebet, and it containeth part of December, and part of January.
- 2 Kings 25:1 Or, a mount.
- 2 Kings 25:3 Insomuch that the mothers did eat their children, Lam. 4:10.
- 2 Kings 25:4 Which was a postern door, or some secret gate to issue out at.
- 2 Kings 25:6 Or, condemned him for his perjury and treason, 2 Chron. 36:13.
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