📖WEB · 2 Kings 25:7
What does 2 Kings 25:7 mean?
"They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon."
— 2 Kings 25:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
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