Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 25:6
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6, 7. they took the king, and brought him . . . to Riblah —Nebuchadnezzar, having gone from the siege to oppose the auxiliary forces of Pharaoh-hophra, left his generals to carry on the blockade, he himself not returning to the scene of action, but taking up his station at Riblah in the land of Hamath ( 2 Kings 23:33 ). they gave judgment upon him —They, that is, the council ( Jeremiah 39:3 ; Jeremiah 39:13 ; Daniel 6:7 ; Daniel 6:8 ; Daniel 6:12 ), regarding him as a seditious and rebellious vassal, condemned him for violating his oath and neglecting the announcement of the divine will as made known to him by Jeremiah (compare Jeremiah 32:5 ; Jeremiah 34:2 ; Jeremiah 38:17 ). His sons and the nobles who had joined in his flight were slain before his eyes ( Jeremiah 39:6 ; Jeremiah 52:10 ). In conformity with Eastern ideas, which consider a blind man incapable of ruling, his eyes were put out, and being put in chains, he was carried to perpetual imprisonment in Babylon ( Jeremiah 52:10- : ), which, though he came to it, as Ezekiel had foretold, he did not see ( Jeremiah 32:5 ; Ezekiel 12:13 ; Ezekiel 17:16 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"
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