Jeremiah 52:4

² And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

³ For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

⁵ And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

⁶ By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

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: So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
KJV: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
WEB: In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
ASV: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
DARBY: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they encamped against it, and built turrets against it round about.
BLB: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [that] came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—he and all his army—against Jerusalem. And they encamped against it and built against it a siege wall all around.

ÅB: I hans niende regjeringsår, i den tiende måned, på den tiende dag i måneden, dro kongen i Babel Nebukadnesar med hele sin hær mot Jerusalem og leiret seg imot det, og de bygget skanser mot det rundt omkring.
OTB: I det niende året av Sidkias regjering, på den tiende dagen i den tiende måneden, kom Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, med hele sin hær mot Jerusalem. De slo leir mot den og bygde beleiringsverker rundt omkring.
B1930: I hans niende regjeringsår, i den tiende måned, på den tiende dag i måneden, drog kongen i Babel Nebukadnesar med hele sin hær mot Jerusalem og leiret sig imot det, og de bygget skanser mot det rundt omkring.

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Jeremiah 39:1
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.
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Zechariah 8:19
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
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Ezekiel 24:1–2
In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Jeremiah 52:7
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
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Jeremiah 32:24
See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
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Ezekiel 4:1–7
“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 21:22
In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
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Deuteronomy 28:52–57
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
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