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Complete Jewish Bible

Jeremiah 52:11

Then the king of Bavel put out Tzidkiyahu's eyes, bound him in chains, carried him off to Bavel and kept him in prison until the day of his death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Malice;   Prison;   Zedekiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bondage, Physical;   Liberty-Bondage;   Prisons;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prison;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Zedekiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Inspection Gate;   Jeremiah;   Miphkad Gate;   Prison, Prisoners;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lance, Lancet;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Prison (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zedekiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hardness of heart;   Sight;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zedeki'ah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Eye;   Jeremiah;   Zedekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Prison;   Riblah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cruelty;   Fetters;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
Hebrew Names Version
He put out the eyes of Tzidkiyahu; and the king of Bavel bound him in fetters, and carried him to Bavel, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
New American Standard Bible
Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze shackles and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.
New Century Version
Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and put bronze chains on him, and took him to Babylon. And the king kept Zedekiah in prison there until the day he died.
Amplified Bible
Then the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon and there he put him in prison [in a mill] until the day of his death.
World English Bible
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 until the day of his death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babel bound him in chaines, and caried him to Babel, and put him in pryson till the day of his death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.
Berean Standard Bible
Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
Contemporary English Version
then his eyes were poked out. He was put in chains, then dragged off to Babylon and kept in prison until he died.
Darby Translation
And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass; and the king of Babylon carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the king of Babylon tore out Zedekiah's eyes. He put bronze chains on him and took him to Babylon. In Babylon he put Zedekiah into prison. He stayed in prison until the day he died.
George Lamsa Translation
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon carried him to Babylon and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Good News Translation
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains and taken to Babylon. Zedekiah remained in prison in Babylon until the day he died.
Lexham English Bible
Then he made blind the eyes of Zedekiah, and they tied him up with bronze fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon. And he put him in prison until the day of his death.
Literal Translation
And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters and carried him to Babylon. And he put him in prison until the day of his death.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer he put out the eyes of Sedechias, caused him be bounde with cheynes, to be caried vnto Babilon: & let him lie in preson, till he dyed.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chaines, and caried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, & caused hym to be bounde with two chaynes, to be caryed vnto Babylon, and let him lye in prison tyl he dyed.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he puttide out the iyen of Sedechie, and boond hym in stockis; and the kyng of Babiloyne brouyte hym in to Babiloyne, and puttide hym in the hous of prisoun, til to the dai of his deth.
Update Bible Version
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 until the day of his death.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
He had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him bound in chains. Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died.
New King James Version
He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
New Living Translation
Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in bronze chains, and the king of Babylon led him away to Babylon. Zedekiah remained there in prison until the day of his death.
New Life Bible
Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, put him in chains of brass, and took him to Babylon. There he was put in prison until the day of his death.
New Revised Standard
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the eyes of Zedekiah, put he out, - and bound him with fetters of bronze and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison - until the day of his death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon, and he put him in prison till the day of his death.
Revised Standard Version
He put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Young's Literal Translation
and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him in brazen fetters, and the king of Babylon bringeth him to Babylon, and putteth him in the house of inspection unto the day of his death.

Contextual Overview

1 Tzidkiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for eleven years in Yerushalayim. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu, from Livnah. 2 He did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, following the example of everything Y'hoyakim had done. 3 And it was because of Adonai 's anger that all these things happened to Yerushalayim and Y'hudah, until he had thrown them out of his presence. Tzidkiyahu rebelled against the king of Bavel; 4 so in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel marched against Yerushalayim with his entire army. He set up camp against it and built siege towers against it on every side. 5 The city remained under siege into the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu. 6 On the ninth day of the fourth month, when the famine in the city was so severe that there was no food for the people of the land, 7 they broke through into the city. All the soldiers fled and left the city by night through the gate between the two walls, near the king's garden. Because the Kasdim were surrounding the city, they took the route through the ‘Aravah. 8 But the army of the Kasdim went in pursuit of the king and overtook Tzidkiyahu on the plains near Yericho; all his troops deserted him. 9 Then they took the king and brought him up to the king of Bavel in Rivlah, in the land of Hamat, where he passed judgment on him. 10 The king of Bavel slaughtered his sons before his eyes; he also slaughtered all the leading men of Y'hudah in Rivlah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

put out the eyes of Zedekiah: Heb. blinded Zedekiah, Jeremiah 34:3-5, Ezekiel 12:13

chains: or, fetters

prison: Heb. house of the wards

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:34 - lest 2 Kings 25:7 - they slew Jeremiah 39:7 - he put Lamentations 1:6 - all Lamentations 2:6 - the king Lamentations 5:12 - General Ezekiel 17:16 - even Ezekiel 19:1 - the princes Matthew 1:11 - about

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah,.... After he had seen his children and princes executed, which must be very terrible to him;

:-;

and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon; in Jeremiah 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 52:11. He put out the eyes of ZedekiahJeremiah 39:7.


 
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