Verse 5
2 Kings 25:5
Free Bible Version
5
They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he was sentenced.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּרְדְּפ֤וּ חֵיל כַּשְׂדִּים֙ אַחַ֣ר הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ וַ/יַּשִּׂ֥גוּ אֹת֖/וֹ בְּ/עַרְב֣וֹת יְרֵח֑וֹ וְ/כָל חֵיל֔/וֹ נָפֹ֖צוּ מֵ/עָלָֽי/ו
English Translation
And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they caught him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army scattered from before him.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 25 Context
1
In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of...
Focus ↗
2
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing...
Focus ↗
3
Then the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers escaped at night through the gate betwee...
Focus ↗
4
but the Babylonian army chased after the king and caught up with him on the plains of Jericho. His w...
Focus ↗
5
They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he was sentenced.
6
They slaughtered Zedekiah's sons while he watched, and then gouged out his eyes, bound him in bronze...
Focus ↗
7
On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Ne...
Focus ↗
8
He burned down the Lord's Temple, the royal palace, and all the large buildings of Jerusalem.
Focus ↗
9
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, deported those who were left in the city, even those who ha...
Focus ↗
10
The Babylonians broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the movable carts, and the bronze Sea that bel...
Focus ↗
11
They also took all the pots, shovels, lamp snuffers, dishes, and all the other bronze items used in...
Focus ↗
12
The commander of the guard removed the censers and bowls, anything that was made of pure gold or sil...
Focus ↗
13
The amount of bronze that came from the two columns, the Sea and the movable carts, which Solomon ha...
Focus ↗
14
Each column was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital on top of one column was three cubits high,...
Focus ↗
15
The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah, the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest, second...
Focus ↗
16
From those left in the city he took the officer in charge of the soldiers, and five of the king's ad...
Focus ↗
17
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took them and brought them before the king of Babylon at Ri...
Focus ↗
18
The king of Babylon had them executed at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So the people of Judah had to...
Focus ↗
19
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over...
Focus ↗
20
When all the army officers of Judah and their men learned that the king of Babylon had appointed Ged...
Focus ↗
21
Gedaliah swore an oath to them and their men, telling them, “Don't be afraid of the Babylonian offic...
Focus ↗
22
But in the seventh month, Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of royal blood, came with ten...
Focus ↗
23
As a result, all the people, from the least to the greatest, along with the army commanders, ran awa...
Focus ↗
24
In the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison...
Focus ↗
25
So Jehoiachin was able to remove his prison clothes, and he ate frequently at the king's table for t...
Focus ↗