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Jeremiah 39:7

Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes See on Jeremiah 34:3 and cp. Judges 16:21. "Putting out the eyes has been at all times a common Oriental punishment.… The frequency of the punishment in the time of the younger Cyrus is indicated by a passage in Xenophon, where it is said that men deprived of sight for their crimes were a common spectacle along the highways within his government." Rawlinson's Herod. vol. IV. p. 16. C.B. (Barnes), on the parallel passage in Kings, quotes Layard for modern instances in Persia.

fetters The Hebrew word is dual, and the meaning therefore probably twochains. Cp. Acts 12:6.

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See also Jeremiah 39:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 39:7. _BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS_] Margin: "Two brazen chains;" one for his hands, and the other for his feet....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare the marginal reference. The differences between the two accounts are slight....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 39 _ 1. The fall of Jerusalem and the fate of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 39:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's kindness to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:10) 3. Ebed-melech's reward (Jeremiah 39:15)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FALL OF JERUSALEM: JEREMIAH SPARED. This paragraph well illustrates the growth of the OT text; _cf._ 2 Kings 25:1 (also reproduced in Jeremiah 52:4, from which Jeremiah 39:1 f. and...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES. So that Ezekiel was quite correct when he said that Zedekiah should be taken to Babylon, though he should not see it (Ezekiel 12:13). WITH CHAINS. with two fetters. TO CARRY...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES— See chap. Jeremiah 52:11 where it is added, that he put him in prison till the day of his death. Thus two prophesies were fulfilled, which seemed at first hearing to contra...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Capture of the King Jeremiah 39:4-10 TRANSLATION (4) And it came to pass when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw them, they fled by going out at night from the city by way of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES, AND BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS, TO CARRY HIM TO BABYLON._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    39:7 brass, (b-15) As 2 Kings 25:7 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM (11TH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH) The narrative in this c., with some varieties in detail, coincides with that of Jeremiah 52 and with 2 Kings 25. 1-7. The city taken. Zedekiah's fate...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    See on Jeremiah 34:3. Putting out the eyes was a common punishment in the East. 8-10. Fate of the city. If we had only this narrative we should suppose that Nebuzaradan was present in person, but Jer...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH’S EYES. — The special form of punishment is noticeable as fulfilling the two prophecies — (1) that Zedekiah should see the king of Babylon and be taken to that city (Jerem...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֶת ־עֵינֵ֥י צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ עִוֵּ֑ר וַ יַּא

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter records the fall of Jerusalem. After a long siege lasting from the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign until the fourth month of the eleventh year, at last "a breach was mad...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a sad business Zedekiah had made of it; and what a grievous calamity followed! Zedekiah was but in the prime of life when these things took place. And here he felt the awful consequence of reject...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _NON-ACCEPTANCE OF CHASTISEMENT_ ‘Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes.’ Jeremiah 39:7 What are the speakings of this ‘Moreover’ to us? It says to us— I. REJECT NOT LIMITED CHASTISEMENT OR TRIAL,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here was an accumulation of misery: the king had his eyes pulled out, (117) after having been a spectator of the slaughter of his own sons! He then saw heaped together the dead bodies of his own offsp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAH'S EYES,.... By what means is not certain; however, hereby the prophecy of Jeremiah was fulfilled, that his eyes should see the king of Babylon, as they did, before they we...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. Ver. 7. See on 2 Kings 25:7 ....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They fled by the gate betwixt the two walls_ Betwixt the wall and the outworks, or betwixt the old wall of the city and the new one which Hezekiah built, of which mention is made 2 Chronicles 32:5. S...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JERUSALEM TAKEN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moreover, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, commanding that he be blinded, probably by passing a heated metal rod before his open eyes, AND BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS, doubly fettered hand and foot, TO CARRY HIM...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WITH CHAINS: _ Heb._ with two brasen chains, or fetters...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it was as weak as other cities. Zedekiah had his...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Thus the two prophecies were fulfilled; that of this prophet, JEREMIAH 34:4, that Zedekiah should not _die by the sword_; and that of Ezekiel, that _he should not see Babylon_, though he should die th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 39:7 out H5786 (H8765) Zedekiahs H6667 eyes H5869 bound H631 (H8799) fetters H5178 carry H935 ...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    BABYLON Here began the "times of the Gentiles," the mark of which is that Jerusalem is "trodden down of the Gentiles," that is, Under Gentile overlordship. This has been true from the time of Nebucha...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Final captivity of Judah in accordance with the prophets. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sar-sechim, Rab-saris, Rab-mag, Nebuzaradan, Jeremiah, Nebushas...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 39:1. _In the ninth year of Zedekiah they besieged Jerusalem._ On the very day that God revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon the taking of the city. This would reconcile the captives to their lot,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon._ THE DOWNFALL OF JUDAH The siege and sacking of Jerusalem under Nebuchadrezzar is the most tragi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 39:6 Nebuchadnezzar was harsher than ZEDEKIAH feared his countrymen would be (Jeremiah 38:19)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_Cf_. notes _in loc_. chap. 34. The siege lasted just one year and six months, not reckoning the interval during which the Chaldeans broke...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter is very confused as it stands. To restore order it is absolutely necessary to suppose that some passages (viz. Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:2, and Jeremiah 39:4) have been insert...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and began their siege. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 25:7; Ezekiel 12:13; Jeremiah 32:4; Jeremiah 32:5; Jerem

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