2 Kings 25:2
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New International Version (©2011)
The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So the city was besieged 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The city was under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah.

NET Bible (©2006)
The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The blockade of the city lasted until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

American King James Version
And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

American Standard Version
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of king Sedecias,

Darby Bible Translation
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

English Revised Version
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

World English Bible
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Young's Literal Translation
And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,

Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

"And the city was besieged till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah," in which the northern wall of the city was broken through on the ninth day of the fourth month (2 Kings 25:3). That Jerusalem could sustain a siege of this duration, namely eighteen months, shows what the strength of the fortifications must have been. Moreover the siege was interrupted for a short time, when the approach of the Egyptian king Hophra compelled the Chaldaeans to march to meet him and drive him back, which they appear to have succeeded in doing without a battle (cf. Jeremiah 37:5., Ezekiel 17:7).

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 Commentary on the Bible

And the city was besieged, etc. - 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 endeavoring to make their escape by night.

Geneva Study Bible

And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

2 Kings 25:2 Parallel Commentaries
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Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem
1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. …

2 Kings 25:1 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.
2 Kings 25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
Jeremiah 32:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
Jeremiah 52:5 The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.