2 Kings 25:6-7
they took.2Ch 33:11; Jer 21:7; 34:21,22; 38:23; La 4:19,20; Eze 17:20,21Eze 21:25-27Riblah.23:33; Jer 52:9gave judgment upon him. Heb. spake judgment with him. they slew.Ge 21:16; 44:34; De 28:34; Jer 22:30; 39:6,7; 52:10,11and put out. Heb. and made blind.Thus were fulfilled the apparently contradictory prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel--that his eyes should see the king of Babylon, but Babylon he should not see, though he should die there. Jer 32:4,5; 34:3; Eze 12:13-16bound him.Jud 16:21; 2Ch 33:11; 36:6; Ps 107:10,11; 149:8; Eze 7:27; 17:16-20Jeremiah 39:6-7
slew the.52:10; 2Ki 25:7before.Ge 21:16; 44:34; De 28:34; 2Ki 22:20; 2Ch 34:28; Es 8:6; Isa 13:16slew all.21:7; 24:8-10; 34:19-21 he put.32:4,5; 52:11; 2Ki 25:7; Eze 12:13chains. Heb. two brasen chains, or fetters.Jud 16:21; Ps 107:10,11; 119:8Jeremiah 52:10-11
slew.22:30; 39:6,7; Ge 21:16; 44:34; De 28:34; 2Ki 25:7he slew.24-27; 2Ki 25:18-21; Eze 9:6; 11:7-11 put out the eyes of Zedekiah. Heb. blinded Zedekiah.34:3-5; Eze 12:13chains. or, fetters. prison. Heb. house of the wards.Ezekiel 12:13
My net.This was to intimate, that though he escaped out of the city, the Chaldeans should overtake him, and carry him to Babylon. Jeremiah had predicted that his "eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon," and here Ezekiel foretold that he should not see Babylon, though he should die there; and Josephus says that he thought the two prophecies so inconsistent with each other, that he believed neither; yet both were exactly fulfilled, and the enigma of Ezekiel explained, when Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah, where he had his eyes put out, and was then carried to Babylon, and there died. 17:16,20; 19:8,9; 32:3; Job 19:6; Ps 11:6; Isa 24:17,18; Jer 50:24La 1:13; 3:47; 4:19,20; Ho 7:12; Lu 21:35and I.2Ki 25:5-7; Jer 34:3; 39:7; 52:8-11Ezekiel 17:18-20
Seeing.Though Zedekiah's oath had been given to a heathen, a conqueror, and a tyrant, yet God considered the violation of it a most aggravated sin against Him, and determined to punish him for it. lo, he.1Ch 29:24; 2Ch 30:8; *marginsLa 5:6he shall.15 surely.21:23-27; De 5:11; Jer 5:2,9; 7:9-15 I will spread.12:13; 32:3; Jos 10:16-18; 2Sa 18:9; 2Ch 33:11; Job 10:16; Ec 9:12Jer 39:5-7; La 1:13; 4:20; Ho 7:12; Lu 21:35plead.20:35,36; 38:22; Jer 2:9,35; 50:44; Ho 2:2; Mic 6:2Ezekiel 21:25
profane.17:19; 2Ch 36:13; Jer 24:8; 52:2whose.29; 7:6; 30:3; 35:5; Ps 7:9; 9:5,6; Jer 51:13
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