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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Revised Standard Version

2 Kings 25:2

So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
His army stayed around Jerusalem until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king of Judah.
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,
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 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; and they built siegeworks against it round about. 2 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city; the king with all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chalde'ans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 6 Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence upon him. 7 They slew the sons of Zedeki'ah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters, 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 took another wife, whose name was Ketu'rah.
Genesis 25:4
The sons of Mid'ian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abi'da, and Elda'ah. All these were the children of Ketu'rah.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Ked'emah.
Genesis 25:16
These are the sons of Ish'mael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.
Genesis 25:17
(These are the years of the life of Ish'mael, a hundred and thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kindred.)
Genesis 25:18
They dwelt from Hav'ilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria; he settled over against all his people.
Genesis 25:32
Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"
Genesis 25:33
Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Genesis 36:35
Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Mid'ian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead, the name of his city being 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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