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Jeremiah 39

Jer. 39:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreovers he put out
`avar (Hebrew #5786)
to blind
KJV usage: blind, put out. See also 5895.
Pronounce: aw-var'
Origin: a primitive root (rather denominatively from 5785 through the idea of a film over the eyes)
Zedekiah’s
Tsidqiyah (Hebrew #6667)
from 6664 and 3050; right of Jah; Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites
KJV usage: Zedekiah, Zidkijah.
Pronounce: tsid-kee-yaw'
Origin: or Tsidqiyahuw {tsid-kee-yaw'-hoo}
eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
, and bound
'acar (Hebrew #631)
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
KJV usage: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
Pronounce: aw-sar'
Origin: a primitive root
him with θchains
nchosheth (Hebrew #5178)
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
KJV usage: brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
Pronounce: nekh-o'-sheth
Origin: for 5154
, to carry
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
him to Babylon
Babel (Hebrew #894)
confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
KJV usage: Babel, Babylon.
Pronounce: baw-bel'
Origin: from 1101
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Jer. 52:11• 11Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah: and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. (Jer. 52:11)
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Ezek. 12:13• 13My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. (Ezek. 12:13)
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two brazen chains, or, fetters.

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Babylon,
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Zedekiah

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Ministry on This Verse

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he put.
Jer. 32:4‑5• 4and 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;
 5and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though he fight with the Chaldeans ye shall not prosper. (Jer. 32:4‑5)
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Jer. 52:11• 11Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah: and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. (Jer. 52:11)
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2 Kings 25:7• 7and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon. (2 Kings 25:7)
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Ezek. 12:13• 13My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. (Ezek. 12:13)
chains.
Heb. two brasen chains, or fetters.
Judg. 16:21• 21And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazah, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he had to grind in the prison-house. (Judg. 16:21)
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Psa. 107:10‑11• 10Dwellers in darkness and death-shade,{HR}Bound in affliction and iron,
 11Because they resisted the words of God ,{HR}And despised the counsel of the Most High, (Psa. 107:10‑11)
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Psa. 119:8• 8Thy statutes I will keep:{HR}Forsake me not utterly. (Psa. 119:8)
• Then, that no other scene might ever efface that one to the end of his life, his own eyes were put out. (“Chapter 21” by H.A. Ironside)
• The word of the Lord through Ezekiel, concerning Zedekiah, though he may never have learned of it, had been, “My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare: and I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there” (Ezek. 12:18). See, also, Ezek. 17:12-21... where what is related as history by Jeremiah is all foretold by the prophet of the dispersion. (“Chapter 21” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brassb, to carry him to Babylon.

JND Translation Notes

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As 2 Kings 25.7.

W. Kelly Translation

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Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.