And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, for they were guilty with their father and might have continued the dynasty, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, they blinded him, probably by passing a heated metal rod over his open eyes, and bound him with fetters of brass, doubly fettered hand and foot, and carried him to Babylon. Thus Zedekiah was maimed for life and had to give up all hope of ever being able to rule again.
BEFORE HIS EYES - This refinement of cruelty seems to have especially shocked the Jews, whose manners were less barbarous than those of most Orientals. It is noted by Jeremiah in two places Jeremiah 3...
3. THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH'S COMPLETE OVERTHROW CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The last siege and complete overthrow (2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles 36:17)_ 2. Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22) 3. J
2 Kings 24:18 to 2 Kings 25:7. ZEDEKIAH. DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLE AND CITY. This event is related more fully in Jeremiah. Zedekiah seems to have been well-meaning but weak, and inclined to favour Jeremia...
THEY SLEW THE SONS OF ZEDEKIAH. Usually, in those days, the children were involved in the hapless fate of the father. They were slain before his eyes in order to add to the bitterness of his punishme...
PUT OUT THE EYES. So that he did not "see" Babylon, though he was to die there (Ezekiel 12:13). But he did "see" the king of Babylon, according to Jeremiah 32:4; Jeremiah 34:3. See note on...
_slew the sons of Zedekiah_ This was done to prevent the rise of a new revolt under a successor. To do it in the sight of the father was to break down all his hope of any rightful successor taking his...
AND PUT OUT THE EYES OF ZEDEKIAH, &C.— Josephus takes notice, that the seeming contradiction in the prophesies of Ezekiel and Jeremiah concerning the fate of Zedekiah, made that prince give no heed to...
V. THE REVOLT OF ZEDEKIAH AND PUNISHMENT OF ZEDEKIAH 24:18-25:7 TRANSLATION (18) Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of hi...
_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._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....
25:7 brass, (b-23) Or 'with double (or 'two') chains of bronze.'...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM This chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish people....
PUT OUT THE EYES] Zedekiah was taken to Babylon, but he did not _see_ it, just as Ezekiel had predicted (2 Kings 12:13). An Assyrian king is represented on one of his monuments as blinding a captive w...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 25 THE KING OF BABYLON ATTACKS JERUSALEM V1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched out with his whole army. He marche...
AND THEY SLEW... — The verbs are all singular in Jeremiah 39:6; Jeremiah 52:10; so that the acts in question are attributed directly to Nebuchadnezzar, to whose orders they were due. (So the versions,...
וְ אֶת ־בְּנֵי֙ צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ שָׁחֲט֖וּ לְ עֵ
ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAH B.C. 597-586 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 25:1 " _ Quand ce grand Dieu a choisi quelqu'un pour etre l'instrument de ses desseins rien n'arrete le cours, en enchaine, ou...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM B.C. 586 2 Kings 25:1 "In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all nations." - Zechariah 12:3 "An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: beh...
THE CAPTIVITY MADE COMPLETE 2 Kings 25:1 As the final catastrophe approaches, the historian becomes more minute in his dates, marking the _month_ and the _day_. From Ezekiel 24:1 we gather that on th...
The rebellion was easily quelled, and Zedekiah was captured and taken to Babylon. His fate is tragic and awful. With eyes put out, and bound in fetters, he was carried to the court of his conqueror as...
Eyes; after they had been excruciated by the sight of his slaughtered children. He thus might be convinced, that there was no reason to despise the predictions of Jeremias and of Ezechiel, (xii. 13.)...
The history in this place is but shortly related, just to manifest God's certain judgments: but very long and painful must have been the process of them in their execution. Jeremiah had been long prea...
Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh, young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25. The kings of Israel had been the fatal examples of a course which had led Judah and all Israel to their ruin (see 2 Kings 16:3). The pious Jehoshap...
2 Kings 25:1...
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. Ver. 7. _And they slew the sons of Zedekiah._] W...
_They slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes_ Though they were but children, that this spectacle, the last he was to behold, might leave a deep and durable impression of grief and horror upon his s...
1 Ierusalem is besieged. 4 Zedekiah taken, his sonnes slaine, his eyes put out. 8 Nabuzaradan defaceth the city, carieth the remnant, except a few poore labourers, into captiuitie, 13 Spoileth and...
THE TOTAL CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH (vv.1-21) In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged Jerusalem, building a wall around it. Jeremiah told Zedekiah, by the word of the Lord, t...
PUT OUT THE EYES: _ Heb._ made blind...
1-7 Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffic...
Thus two prophecies were fulfilled, which seemed contrary one to the other, _that he should go to Babylon_, JEREMIAH 32:5, JEREMIAH 34:3, and that _he should never see Babylon_; which seeming contradi...
2 Kings 25:7 killed H7819 (H8804) sons H1121 Zedekiah H6667 eyes H5869 out H5786 (H8765) eyes H5869 Zedekiah...
CONTENTS: Seige of Jerusalem and final deportation. CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Gedaliah, Ishmael, Evil-merodach, Jehoiachin. CONCLUSION: Those who have by sin provoked God to leave t...
2 Kings 25:18. _Seraiah,_ the father of Ezra, was put to death with the nobles for rebellion; but many of those who thus suffered had also made a false covenant with the Lord; and their sins found the...
_And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign._ CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH We have two prominent characters in this lesson--Zedekiah King of Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon. The latter was on...
THE UTTER DESOLATION OF JERUSALEM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 25:1. IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN—The revolt of Zedekiah so incensed Nebuchadnezzar that he determined on the final act o...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 25:1 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT
2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36:6; Deuteronomy 28:34; Ezekiel 12:13;...
Slew, &c. — Tho' they were but children, that this spectacle, the last he was to behold, might leave a remaining impression of grief and horror upon his spirit. And in slaying his sons they in effect...