KJV King James Version
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
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2 Kings 25:6
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
WEB World English Bible
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
ASV American Standard Version
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him—judgment.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 25
3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.
5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man’s] house burnt he with fire.
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וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙H8610 · ta.pha.sto captureאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַמֶּ֔לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingוַיַּעֲל֥וּH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseאֹת֛וֹH853 · et[Obj.]אֶל־H413 · elto(wards)מֶ֥לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingבָּבֶ֖לH894 · ba.velBabylonרִבְלָ֑תָהH7247 · riv.lahRiblahוַיְדַבְּר֥וּH1696 · da.varto speak: speakאִתּ֖וֹH854 · etwithמִשְׁפָּֽט׃H4941 · mish.patjustice: judgement
Cross-references
2 Kings 23:33And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.Jeremiah 34:21-22And 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, which are gone up from you.Jeremiah 38:23So 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.Lamentations 4:19-20Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.Ezekiel 17:20-21And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.Jeremiah 21:7And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and 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 32:4And 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;Ezekiel 21:25-27And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,2 Chronicles 33:11Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.Jeremiah 52:9Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
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