Quotes about King
One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
— Jeremiah 51:31
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
— Jeremiah 52:1
And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
— Jeremiah 52:2
And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
— Jeremiah 52:5
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.
— Jeremiah 52:8
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
— Jeremiah 52:9
There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.
— Jeremiah 52:10
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
— Jeremiah 52:26
There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
— Jeremiah 52:27
And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
— Jeremiah 52:34
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
— Lamentations 2:6
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
— Lamentations 2:9