Jeremiah 52:5
3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 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.
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of 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.
Compare
- 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.