2 Kings 25:2
1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
- KJV
- And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
- WEB
- So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
- ASV
- So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
- DARBY
- And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
- BLB
- And the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
- ÅB
- Og de holdt byen kringsatt like til kong Sedekias' ellevte år.
- OTB
- Slik ble byen beleiret inntil det ellevte året av kong Sidkia.
- B1930
- Og de holdt byen kringsatt like til kong Sedekias' ellevte år.