Verse 5
The army of the Chaldeans pursued - Zedekiah was taken, and brought captive to Riblah in Syria, where Nebuchadnezzar then lay, who ordered his sons to be slain before his face, and then put out his eyes; and having loaded him with chains, sent him to Babylon, (see Jeremiah 39:4 , Jeremiah 39:7 ; Jeremiah 52:7 , Jeremiah 52:11 ;), thus fulfilling the prophetic declarations, that his eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon, Jeremiah 32:4 ; Jeremiah 34:3 ; but Babylon he should not see, though he was to die there; Ezekiel 12:13 .
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