Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Ezekiel 12:13

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My net: This was to intimate, that though he escaped out of the city, the Chaldeans should overtake him, and carry him to Babylon. Jeremiah had predicted that his "eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon," and here Ezekiel foretold that he should not see Babylon, though he should die there; and Josephus says that he thought the two prophecies so inconsistent with each other, that he believed neither; yet both were exactly fulfilled, and the enigma of Ezekiel explained, when Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah, where he had his eyes put out, and was then carried to Babylon, and there died. Eze 17:16, Eze 17:20, Eze 19:8, Eze 19:9, Eze 32:3; Job 19:6; Psa 11:6; Isa 24:17, Isa 24:18; Jer 50:24; Lam 1:13, Lam 3:47, Lam 4:19, Lam 4:20; Hos 7:12; Luk 21:35 and I: Kg2 25:5-7; Jer 34:3, Jer 39:7, Jer 52:8-11 Ezekiel 12:14

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