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Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.
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;
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

1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sar-sechim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him. 6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the house of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. 9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fell away to him, and the residue of the people that remained. 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, that had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same 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
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 26:24
And Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my slave Abraham's sake.
Genesis 26:28
And they said, We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. And we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
Genesis 28:15
And, look, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken to you of.
Genesis 39:9
he is not greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis 39:10
And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he didn't listen to her to lie by her, to have sex with her.
Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
Genesis 39:21
But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39:22
And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatever they did there, he was the one who did it.
1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did not let any of his words fall to the ground.

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.


 
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