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2 Kings 24:11

And Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came against the citie, and his seruauntes did besiege it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Captivity;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jehoiachin;   Jerusalem;   Prophecy;   Siege;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Jerusalem;   Kings;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Jehoiachin;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Jehoiachin;   Jeremiah;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Jehoiachin ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoiachin;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeho-I'achin;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Jehoiachin;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
Hebrew Names Version
Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
King James Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
English Standard Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
New Century Version
Nebuchadnezzar himself came to the city while his officers were attacking it.
New English Translation
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.
Amplified Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
New American Standard Bible
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.
World English Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel came against the citie, and his seruants did besiege it.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.
Berean Standard Bible
And King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
Contemporary English Version
During the attack, Nebuchadnezzar himself arrived at the city.
Complete Jewish Bible
N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel himself went to the city while it was under siege;
Darby Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, while his servants were besieging it.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city.
George Lamsa Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants were besieging it.
Good News Translation
During the siege Nebuchadnezzar himself came to Jerusalem,
Lexham English Bible
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.
Literal Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants lay siege to it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan Nabuchodonosor and his seruauntes came to the cite they layed sege vnto it.
American Standard Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Bible in Basic English
And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it.
King James Version (1611)
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the citie, and his seruants did besiege it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
English Revised Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Nabugodonosor, kyng of Babiloyne, cam to the citee with hise seruauntis, that he schulde fiyte ayens it.
Update Bible Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his slaves were besieging it;
Webster's Bible Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
New King James Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his servants were besieging it.
New Living Translation
Nebuchadnezzar himself arrived at the city during the siege.
New Life Bible
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city, while his soldiers were all around it trying to take it.
New Revised Standard
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants were about to besiege it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his servants, to assault it.
Revised Standard Version
And Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Young's Literal Translation
and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon cometh against the city, and his servants are laying siege to it,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.

Contextual Overview

8 Iehoachin was eighteene yeres olde when he began to raigne, and raigned in Hierusalem three monethes: His mothers name also was Nehusta, the daughter of Elnathan of Hierusalem. 9 And he did that which was euil in the sight of the Lorde, according to all as his father had done. 10 In that tyme came the seruauntes of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon vp against Hierusalem, & the citie was besieged. 11 And Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came against the citie, and his seruauntes did besiege it. 12 And Iehoachin the king of Iuda, came out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother, his seruauntes, his lordes, and his chamberlaynes: and the king of Babylon toke him in the eight yere of his raigne. 13 And he carryed out thence al the treasures of the house of the Lorde, and the treasure of the kinges house, and brake al the vessels of golde which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lorde, as the Lorde had sayde. 14 And he carryed away all Hierusalem, and al the lordes, and all the strong men of warre, euen ten thousand, into captiuitie, and all the craftesmen, & kepers, none remaining saue the poore common people of the lande. 15 And he carryed away Iehoachin to Babylon, and the kinges mother, and the kinges wyues, his chamberlaynes: & them that were mightie in the lande those carryed he away into captiuitie, from Hierusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the actiue men of warre, euen seuen thousand, and craftesmen, and porters a thousand, all that were strong and apt for warre, did the king of Babylon bryng to Babylon captiue. 17 And the king of Babylon made Mathania his fathers brother king in his steade, and chaunged his name to Zedekia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:52 - General Isaiah 29:3 - General Isaiah 36:17 - I come

Cross-References

Genesis 24:13
Lo, I stande here by the well of water, and the daughters of the me of this citie come out to drawe water:
Genesis 24:14
Nowe let the damsel to whom I say, stoupe downe thy pitcher I pray thee, that I may drinke: If she say also, drinke, and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also: let the same be she that thou hast ordeyned for thy seruaunt Isahac, and thereby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my maister.
Genesis 24:20
And she poured out her pytcher into the trough hastyly, and ranne agayne vnto the well to draw [water] and drew for all his Camelles.
Exodus 2:16
The priest of Madian had vij. daughters, which came and drewe [water] and filled the troughes for to water their fathers sheepe.
1 Samuel 9:11
And as they went their way vp the hil to the citie, they met with damosels that came out to drawe water, and sayd vnto them: Is there here a Seer?
Proverbs 12:10
A ryghteous man regardeth the lyfe of his cattell: but the vngodly haue cruell heartes.
John 4:7
And there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water: Iesus sayth vnto her, geue me drynke.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city,.... He came in person, following his army:

and his servants did besiege it; very closely.


 
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