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2 Kings 25:2

His army stayed around Jerusalem until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king of Judah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Jerusalem;   Prophecy;   Siege;   Zedekiah;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jericho;   Mattaniah;   Zedekiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Jerusalem;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeremiah, the Book of;   Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Exile;   Gedaliah;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Lamentations;   War;   Zedekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Famine and Drought;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jeremiah;   Lamentations, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Zedekiah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Pharaoh;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pha'raoh,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zedekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Siege;   Zedekiah (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
Hebrew Names Version
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Tzidkiyahu.
King James Version
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
English Standard Version
So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New Century Version
The city was under attack until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king.
New English Translation
The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.
Amplified Bible
The city came under siege [for nearly two years] until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New American Standard Bible
So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
World English Bible
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the citie was besieged vnto the eleueth yeere of King Zedekiah.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Berean Standard Bible
And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.
Contemporary English Version
After a year and a half, all the food in Jerusalem was gone. Then on the ninth day of the fourth month,
Complete Jewish Bible
The city remained under siege into the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu.
Darby Translation
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
George Lamsa Translation
And the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Good News Translation
and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
Lexham English Bible
So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of the king.
Literal Translation
And the city entered into siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus was the cite beseged vnto the eleuenth yeare of kynge Sedechias.
American Standard Version
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Bible in Basic English
And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yere of king Zedekia.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
King James Version (1611)
And the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of king Zedekiah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias on the ninth day of the month.
English Revised Version
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the citee was closid, and cumpassid, `til to the eleuenthe yeer of king Sedechie,
Update Bible Version
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
New King James Version
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New Living Translation
Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.
New Life Bible
The city had the army of Babylon around it until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New Revised Standard
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the city came into the siege, - until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of king Sedecias,
Revised Standard Version
So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.
Young's Literal Translation
And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Contextual Overview

1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and all his army came to fight against Jerusalem. This happened on the 10th day of the tenth month of Zedekiah's ninth year as king. Nebuchadnezzar put his army around Jerusalem to stop people from going in and out of the city. Then he built a wall of dirt around the city. 2 His army stayed around Jerusalem until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king of Judah. 3 The famine was getting worse and worse in the city. By the 9th day of the fourth month, there was no more food for the common people in the city. 4 Nebuchadnezzar's army finally broke through the city wall. That night King Zedekiah and all his soldiers ran away. They used the secret gate that went through the double walls. It was by the king's garden. The enemy soldiers were all around the city, but Zedekiah and his men escaped on the road to the desert. 5 The Babylonian army chased King Zedekiah and caught him near Jericho. All of Zedekiah's soldiers left him and ran away. 6 The Babylonians took King Zedekiah to the king of Babylon at Riblah. The Babylonians decided to punish Zedekiah. 7 They killed Zedekiah's sons in front of him. Then they put out Zedekiah's eyes. They put chains on him and took him to Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 24:10 - was besieged Jeremiah 21:2 - for Jeremiah 32:1 - in the Jeremiah 39:1 - the ninth

Cross-References

Genesis 25:1
Abraham married again. His new wife was named Keturah.
Genesis 25:4
The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these sons came from the marriage of Abraham and Keturah.
Genesis 25:8
Then he grew weak and died. He had lived a long and satisfying life. He died and went to be with his people.
Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Genesis 25:16
These were the names of Ishmael's sons. Each son had his own camp that became a small town. The twelve sons were leaders over their own people.
Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived to be 137 years old. Then he died and went to be with his people.
Genesis 25:18
His descendants settled throughout the desert area from Havilah to Shur. This area begins near Egypt and goes toward Assyria. Ishmael's people were often at war with the other descendants of Abraham.
Genesis 25:32
Esau said, "I am almost dead with hunger, so what good are these rights to me now?"
Genesis 25:33
But Jacob said, "First, promise me that you will give them to me." So Esau made an oath to him and sold his rights as the firstborn son to Jacob.
Genesis 36:35
When Husham died, Hadad ruled that area. Hadad was the son of Bedad. (He was the man who defeated Midian in the country of Moab.) Hadad was from the city of Avith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The siege lasted almost exactly a year and a half. Its calamities - famine, pestilence, and intense suffering - are best understood from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, written probably almost immediately after the capture.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 25:2-4. And the city was besieged, &c. — Nebuchadnezzar, having routed the Egyptian army, returned to Jerusalem, and besieged it so closely that, being reduced by famine, and a breach made in the wall, the Chaldeans entered it on the ninth day of the fourth month, (Wednesday, July 27,) Zedekiah and many others endeavouring to make their escape by night.


 
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