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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Jeremiah 39:7

and the eyes of Zedekiah, did he put out, and bound him with fetters of bronze to bring him into Babylon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Captive;   Zedekiah;   Scofield Reference Index - Gentiles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Jeremiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blind;   Chain;   Kings, the Books of;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Lamentations;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chains;   Exile;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Chains;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nebuzaradan;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Riblah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Blindness;   Chain;   Zedeki'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eye;   Jeremiah (2);   Riblah;   Zedekiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Evil-Merodach;   Eye;   Fetters;   Rabbah B. Mari;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
Hebrew Names Version
Moreover he put out Tzidkiyahu's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Bavel.
King James Version
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
English Standard Version
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
New American Standard Bible
He then blinded Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in shackles of bronze to bring him to Babylon.
New Century Version
Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes. He put bronze chains on Zedekiah and took him to Babylon.
Amplified Bible
Moreover, he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
World English Bible
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer he put out Zedekiahs eyes, and bound him in chaines, to cary him to Babel.
Legacy Standard Bible
He then blinded Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon.
Berean Standard Bible
Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
Contemporary English Version
His eyes were poked out, and he was put in chains, so he could be dragged off to Babylonia.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then he put out Tzidkiyahu's eyes and bound him in chains to be carried off to Bavel.
Darby Translation
and he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, to carry him to Babylon.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Nebuchadnezzar tore out Zedekiah's eyes. He put bronze chains on Zedekiah and took him to Babylon.
George Lamsa Translation
Moreover, he put out Zedekiahs eyes and bound him in chains, to carry him to Babylon.
Good News Translation
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains to be taken to Babylonia.
Lexham English Bible
Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and tied him up with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon.
Literal Translation
And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters, to make him go to Babylon.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And made Sedechias eyes be put out, and boude him with chaynes, and sent him to Babilon.
American Standard Version
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Bible in Basic English
And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
King James Version (1611)
Moreouer he put out Zedekiahs eyes, and bound him with chaines, to cary him to Babylon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And made Zedekias eyes to be put out, and bounde him with two chaines, and sent hym to Babylon.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, Anameel the son of Salom thy father’s brother is coming to thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for thou hast the right to take it as a purchase.
English Revised Version
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he puttide out the iyen of Sedechie, and boond hym in feteris, that he schulde be led in to Babiloyne.
Update Bible Version
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
New English Translation
Then he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him bound in chains to be led off to Babylon.
New King James Version
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.
New Living Translation
Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in bronze chains to lead him away to Babylon.
New Life Bible
Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and put him in chains of brass to take him to Babylon.
New Revised Standard
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with fetters, to be carried to Babylon.
Revised Standard Version
He put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.
Young's Literal Translation
And the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him with brazen fetters, to bring him in to Babylon.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He then blinded Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon.

Contextual Overview

1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his force against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month on the ninth of the month, was the city broken into. 3 Then came in all the princes of the king of Babylon, and sat in the middle gate, - Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, chief eunuch Nergal-sharezer, chief soothsayer, and all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to pass as soon as Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth by night out of the city, by way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls, - and he went forth by way of the waste plain. 5 But the force of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the waste plains of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him up unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, - and pronounced upon him sentences of judgment. 6 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah before his eyes, - and all the nobles of Judah, did the king of Babylon slay; 7 and the eyes of Zedekiah, did he put out, and bound him with fetters of bronze to bring him into Babylon. 8 And the house of the king, and the houses of the people, did the Chaldeans burn with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem, brake they down; 9 and the remnant of the people who were left in the city, and the disheartened who fell away unto him, and the remnant of the people who were left, did Nebuzaradan chief of the royal executioners, take captive to Babylon. 10 But of the poor people, who had, nothing, did Nebuzaradan chief of the royal executioners, leave remaining in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and ploughed fields on the same day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he put: Jeremiah 32:4, Jeremiah 32:5, Jeremiah 52:11, 2 Kings 25:7, Ezekiel 12:13

chains: Heb. two brasen chains, or fetters, Judges 16:21, Psalms 107:10, Psalms 107:11, Psalms 119:8

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:2 - thrust Isaiah 28:22 - lest Isaiah 39:7 - of thy sons Jeremiah 20:4 - thine Jeremiah 34:3 - and thine Jeremiah 37:17 - thou shalt Jeremiah 52:10 - slew Lamentations 5:12 - General Ezekiel 17:16 - even Ezekiel 21:26 - Remove Zephaniah 1:8 - the princes

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men! that they were, fair, - so they took to themselves wives of whomsoever they chose,
Genesis 39:5
And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the house of the Egyptian, for Joseph's sake, - yea it came to pass, that the blessing of Yahweh, was with all that he had, in the house and in the field;
Genesis 39:6
so that he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and took note with him of nothing, save only the bread which, he himself, was eating. And so it was that Joseph was comely in form and comely in countenance.
Genesis 39:12
that she caught him by his garment, saying - Come! lie with me. Then left he his garment in her hand, and fled and gut forth outside,
Genesis 39:15
And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted high my voice, and cried out, then left he his garment beside me, and fled and gut forth outside.
Genesis 39:16
So she laid by his garment beside her, - until his lord should come into his house,
Genesis 39:18
And it came to pass when I lifted high my voice and cried out, then left he his garment beside me, and fled outside.
2 Samuel 13:11
And, when she brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come lie with me, my sister!
Job 31:1
A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, - How then could I gaze upon a virgin?
Psalms 119:37
Turn away mine eyes, from beholding vanity, In thy way, give me life.

Gill's Notes on the 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 were put out, and that he should not die by the sword, Jeremiah 34:3; and also the prophecy of Ezekiel, Ezekiel 12:13; that he should be brought to Babylon, and yet should not see it; for his eyes were put out before he was carried there: a full proof this of the prescience of God; of his foreknowledge of future and contingent events; of the truth and certainty of prophecy, and of the authority of divine revelation:

and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon; with two brass or iron chains, or fetters, for both his legs; and thus bound he was carried to Babylon, where he remained to the day of his death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 39:7. Bound him with chains — Margin: "Two brazen chains;" one for his hands, and the other for his feet.


 
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