Jeremiah 52:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

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בְּרִבְלָֽתָה

Riblâh

H7247

“in/at · Riblah · toward”

Preposition + Noun, Proper + Suffix, Demonstrative

Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 34:11

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to be fruitful

TWOT: None

Riblah = "fertility" - a place on the eastern boundary of Israel - a town in the land of Hamath on the great road between Babylon and Palestine

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

14: words
12: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בְּרִבְלָֽתָה Riblah H7247 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בְּרִבְלָֽתָה Riblah H7247 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
9 nouns
3 particles

Verb forms

וַיִּשְׁחַ֧ט Qal · Sequential Imperfect
שָׁחַ֥ט Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיִּשְׁחַ֧ט to slaughter H7819 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 52:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Jeremiah 22:30 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
2 Kings 25:7 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Genesis 21:16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Genesis 44:34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
Deuteronomy 28:34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
2 Kings 25:18–21 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
Jeremiah 39:6–7 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.
Jeremiah 52:24–27 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

Ezekiel 11:7–11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel 9:6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 52:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּשְׁחַ֧ט מֶֽלֶךְ בָּבֶ֛ל אֶת בְּנֵ֥י צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ לְעֵינָ֑יו וְגַ֛ם אֶת כָּל שָׂרֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה שָׁחַ֥ט בְּרִבְלָֽתָה

The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.

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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּנְכֵיס מַלְכָּא דְבָבֶל יַת בְּנֵי צִדְקִיָהוּ בְּרִבְלָתָה לְעֵינוֹהִי וְאַף יַת כָּל רַבְרְבֵי יְהוּדָה נְכַס בְּרִבְלָתָה:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Jeremiah 52:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

52:10 He also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah: This sentence is an addition to the narrative in 2 Kgs 25:7. Though the soldiers deserted Zedekiah as they fled to Jericho (Jer 52:8), the officials did not do so.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) He slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.—The fact is not stated in 2 Kings 25, but is found in Jer_39:6.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

10. he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah] omitted in 2 Kgs.

10, 11. These vv. appear in a shorter form in 2Ki_25:7.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah,.... After he had seen his children and princes executed, which must be very terrible to him; See Gill on Jer 39:7;

and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon; in Jer 39:7; it is said, he bound him, "to carry him" there; here it is affirmed he did carry him thither: and it is added,

and put him in prison till the day of his death; from this place only we learn that King Zedekiah was put into a prison, and died a prisoner.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Riblâh (“Riblah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Riblah” (Riblâh) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Numbers 34:11, which shares the word «Riblah», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to slaughter” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«וַיִּשְׁחַ֧ט» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 14 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“to slaughter” occurs 2× in this single verse.
12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 14 words in this verse.