Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, April 11th, 2026
Saturday in Easter Week
Attention!
Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Christian Standard Bible ®

Jeremiah 39:2

In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Month;   Zedekiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Months;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Jeremiah;   Zedekiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Kings, the Books of;   Zedekiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exile;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nebuzaradan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zedeki'ah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zedekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Jeremiah (2);   Siege;   Zedekiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tammuz;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
in the eleventh year of Tzidkiyahu, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)
King James Version
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
English Standard Version
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
New American Standard Bible
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.
New Century Version
This lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month in Zedekiah's eleventh year. Then the city wall was broken through.
Amplified Bible
and in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, they breached the wall and broke into the city.
World English Bible
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the eleuenth yeere of Zedekiah in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the citie was broken vp.
Legacy Standard Bible
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city was breached.
Berean Standard Bible
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city was broken through.
Complete Jewish Bible
On the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of Tzidkiyahu, they broke through into the city.
Darby Translation
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was broken into;
Easy-to-Read Version
And on the ninth day of the fourth month in Zedekiah's eleventh year, the wall of Jerusalem was broken through.
George Lamsa Translation
And in the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, in the fifth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was breached.
Good News Translation
On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, the city walls were broken through.
Lexham English Bible
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was taken by assault.
Literal Translation
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth of the month, the city was breached.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And in the xi. yeare of Sedechias in the fourth Moneth ye ix. daye of ye Moneth, he brake in to the cite).
American Standard Version
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
Bible in Basic English
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city--
King James Version (1611)
And in the eleuenth yeere of Zedekiah, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the citie was broken vp.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the eleuenth yere of Zedekia, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, he brake into the citie)
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the host of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremias was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king’s house;
English Revised Version
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city:)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe in the enleuenthe yeer of Sedechie, in the fourthe monethe, in the fyuethe day of the monethe, the citee was opened;
Update Bible Version
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
Webster's Bible Translation
[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.
New English Translation
It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.
New King James Version
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.
New Living Translation
Two and a half years later, on July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, a section of the city wall was broken down.
New Life Bible
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the city wall was broken open.
New Revised Standard
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month on the ninth of the month, was the city broken into.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.
Revised Standard Version
in the eleventh year of Zedeki'ah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
Young's Literal Translation
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.

Contextual Overview

1In the ninth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to it. 2In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into. 3All the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar, Nebusarsechim the chief of staff, Nergal-sharezer the chief soothsayer, and all the rest of the officials of Babylon’s king. 4When King Zedekiah of Judah and all the fighting men saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the city gate between the two walls. They left along the route to the Arabah. 5However, the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They arrested him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon’s king, at Riblah in the land of Hamath. The king passed sentence on him there. 6At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all Judah’s nobles. 7Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon. 8The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem. 9Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported the rest of the people to Babylon—those who had remained in the city and those deserters who had defected to him along with the rest of the people who remained. 10However, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and he gave them vineyards and fields at that time.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3416, bc 588

the fourth: This was the month Tammuz, which commences with the first moon of July: the siege had lasted just eighteen months. 2 Kings 25:3

was: Jeremiah 5:10, Jeremiah 52:6, Jeremiah 52:7, 2 Kings 25:4, Ezekiel 33:21, Micah 2:12, Micah 2:13, Zephaniah 1:10

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 20:5 - I will deliver Jeremiah 21:2 - for Jeremiah 24:8 - So will Jeremiah 32:1 - in the Jeremiah 34:22 - shall fight Jeremiah 37:8 - General Jeremiah 41:1 - the seventh month Lamentations 2:9 - gates Ezekiel 4:2 - lay Ezekiel 12:5 - Dig thou Ezekiel 26:1 - General Zechariah 8:19 - the fourth

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
Genesis 26:24
and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham.”
Genesis 26:28
They replied, “We have clearly seen how the Lord has been with you. We think there should be an oath between two parties—between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you:
Genesis 28:15
Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Genesis 39:9
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God?”
Genesis 39:10
Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.
Genesis 39:20
and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.
Genesis 39:21
But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him. He granted him favor with the prison warden.
Genesis 39:22
The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority, and he was responsible for everything that was done there.
1 Samuel 3:19
Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and he fulfilled everything Samuel prophesied.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,.... The month Tammuz, which answers to part of June, and part of July:

the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up; or taken by storm; the walls of it were broken by engines and battering rams, so that the Chaldeans could enter it, and take it. This was just a year and a half after it had been besieged, not being able to hold out any longer, because of the famine; see Jeremiah 52:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 39:2. The eleventh year - in the fourth month — This month in the Hebrew calendar is called Thammuz, and commences with the first new moon of our July. The siege had lasted just eighteen months.

The city was broken up. — A breach was made in the wall by which the Chaldeans entered.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile