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JPS Old Testament

2 Kings 24:11

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging 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;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came against the citie, and his seruauntes did besiege 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 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months; and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it. 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. 17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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
Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.
Genesis 24:14
So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy servant, even for Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shown kindness unto my master.'
Genesis 24:20
And she hastened, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
1 Samuel 9:11
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?'
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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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