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they slaughtered them before his eyes
The eyes are synecdoche for the whole person. Alternate translation: "they forced king Zedekiah to watch them kill his sons" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche)
he put out his eyes
"Nebuchadnezzar put out Zedekiah's eyes." It might be best to translate so that the reader understands that other people might have helped Nebuchadnezzar do this. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)