2 Kings 25:7

New American Bible - revised edition

They slew Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes; then they put out his eyes, bound him with fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

Cross References

Genesis 21:16

and then went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away; for she said to herself, “I cannot watch the child die.” As she sat opposite him, she wept aloud.

Genesis 44:34

How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.”

2 Chronicles 33:11

Therefore the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the Assyrian king; they captured Manasseh with hooks, shackled him with chains, and transported him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:6

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

Psalm 149:8

To bind their kings in shackles, their nobles in chains of iron,

Isaiah 22:3

All your leaders fled away together, they were captured without use of bow; All who were found were captured together, though they had fled afar off.

Jeremiah 21:7

After that—oracle of the Lord—I will hand over Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his ministers and the people in this city who survive pestilence, sword, and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to their enemies and those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword, without quarter, without mercy or compassion.

Jeremiah 22:30

Thus says the Lord: Write this man down as childless, a man who will never prosper in his life! Nor shall any of his descendants prosper, to sit upon the throne of David, to rule again over Judah.

Jeremiah 34:3

You yourself shall not escape his hand; rather you will be captured and fall into his hand. You shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak to him face to face. Then you shall go to Babylon.

Jeremiah 37:17

Then King Zedekiah had him brought to his palace, and he asked him secretly, “Is there any word from the Lord?” “There is!” Jeremiah answered: “You shall be handed over to the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 38:23

All your wives and children shall be brought out to the Chaldeans, and you shall not escape their hands; you shall be handed over to the king of Babylon, and this city shall be destroyed by fire.”

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates sank into the ground; he smashed her bars to bits. Her king and her princes are among the nations; instruction is wanting, Even her prophets do not obtain any vision from the Lord.

Ezekiel 12:11

Say, I am a sign for you: just as I have done, so it shall be done to them; into exile, as captives they shall go.

Ezekiel 7:27

The king mourns, the prince is terror-stricken, the hands of the common people tremble. I will deal with them according to their ways, and according to their judgments I will judge them. They shall know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:34

until you are driven mad by what your eyes must look upon.

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you have set over you, to a nation which you and your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone,

Judges 16:21

But the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters, and he was put to grinding grain in the prison.