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Did Zedekiah's eyes behold the king of Babylon?
Seeing the Babylonian king and later traveling blind are compatible events. The supplied texts do not require the meeting to occur after the blinding.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Zedekiah can see the king before being blinded and transported; the quotations never require the opposite sequence.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Zedekiah will see Babylon's king before going to Babylon
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
Jeremiah 34:3
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Zedekiah is blinded before being taken to Babylon
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:7
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)