2 Kings 25:6

What does 2 Kings 25:6 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Kings 25:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him--judgment.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,

Context

v.5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

v.6This passage

v.7And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 34:21

    And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, that are gone away from you.

  • Jeremiah 52:9

    Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.

  • 2 Kings 23:33

    And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

  • Jeremiah 21:7

    And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

  • Jeremiah 38:23

    And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

  • Jeremiah 32:4

    and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

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