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Jeremiah 52:10-12
New English Translation

10 The king of Babylon had Zedekiah’s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. He also had all the nobles of Judah put to death there at Riblah. 11 He had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains.[a] Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died.

12 On the tenth[b] day of the fifth month,[c] in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard[d] who served[e] the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:11 tn Heb “fetters of bronze.” The more generic “chains” is used in the translation because “fetters” is a word unfamiliar to most modern readers.
  2. Jeremiah 52:12 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”
  3. Jeremiah 52:12 sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.
  4. Jeremiah 52:12 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
  5. Jeremiah 52:12 tn Heb “stood before.”
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