Jeremiah 52:5
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.
4 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.
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.
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,
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
- So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
- WEB
- So the city was besieged to 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 [to be] under siege until the one [and] tenth year of King Zedekiah.
- ÅB
- Og de holdt byen kringsatt like til kong Sedekias' ellevte år.
- OTB
- Byen var beleiret til det ellevte året av kong Sidkia.
- B1930
- Og de holdt byen kringsatt like til kong Sedekias' ellevte år.