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Did Zedekiah see Nebuchadnezzar with his own eyes?
Jeremiah 34:3, "You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and handed over to him. You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon."
2 Kings 25:7, "They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon."
Jeremiah had prophesied that Zedekiah king of Judah would be taken captive to Babylon and see king Nebuchadnezzar with his own eyes, however, according to 2 Kings chapter 25, Zedekiah's eyes were put out before being taken captive to Babylon.
"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
(Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)
"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun."
(Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)
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