2 Raja-raja 25:7
Konteks25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. 1 The king of Babylon 2 then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.
Yeremia 52:9
Konteks52:9 They captured him and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah 3 in the territory of Hamath and he passed sentence on him there.
Yehezkiel 12:14
Konteks12:14 All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.
[25:7] 1 tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”
[25:7] 2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[52:9] 3 sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.