Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. New Living Translation Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign. English Standard Version So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Berean Standard Bible And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. King James Bible And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. New King James Version So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. New American Standard Bible So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. NASB 1995 So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. NASB 1977 So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Legacy Standard Bible So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Amplified Bible The city came under siege [for nearly two years] until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Christian Standard Bible The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. Holman Christian Standard Bible The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. American Standard Version So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. English Revised Version So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. GOD'S WORD® Translation The blockade of the city lasted until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king. Good News Translation and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year. International Standard Version The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah. Majority Standard Bible And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah?s eleventh year. NET Bible The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year. New Heart English Bible 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. World English Bible So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd the city enters into siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Young's Literal Translation And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah, Smith's Literal Translation And the city will go into siege till the eleventh year to king Zedekiah. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of king Sedecias, Catholic Public Domain Version And the city was enclosed and besieged, even until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah, New American Bible The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah. New Revised Standard Version So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And the city was besieged in the siege until the eleventh year of King Tsedeqia. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. Brenton Septuagint Translation And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias on the ninth day of the month. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem1So 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 entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. 2And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 3By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.… Cross References Jeremiah 39:2 And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached. Jeremiah 52:5 And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. Ezekiel 24:1-2 In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, / “Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem. 2 Kings 24:10-11 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. / And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it. Jeremiah 34:1-2 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities. / The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down. Lamentations 2:7-9 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. / The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away. / Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD. Ezekiel 4:1-3 “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem. / Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides. / Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. Jeremiah 21:4-7 this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city. / And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath. / I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’ ... 2 Chronicles 36:17-19 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, / who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. / Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. Daniel 1:1-2 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. / And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god. Matthew 24:15-16 So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), / then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Luke 21:20-24 But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. ... Mark 13:14 So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Jeremiah 32:1-2 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. / At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah. Ezekiel 33:21 In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!” Treasury of Scripture And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. Jump to Previous Besieged City Eleventh Entereth Forces Kept Shut Siege Zedekiah Zedeki'ahJump to Next Besieged City Eleventh Entereth Forces Kept Shut Siege Zedekiah Zedeki'ah2 Kings 25 1. Jerusalem is besieged.4. Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, his eyes put out. 8. Nebuzaradan defaces the city, exiles the remnant, except a few poor laborers; 13. and carries away the treasures. 18. The nobles are slain at Riblah. 22. Gedaliah, who was over those who remained, being slain, the rest flee into Egypt. 27. Evil-Merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court. And the city The "city" referred to here is Jerusalem, the heart of the Jewish nation and the center of their religious life. Jerusalem holds a significant place in biblical history as the city chosen by God to place His name there (1 Kings 11:36). Its walls and temple were symbols of God's presence and protection. The Hebrew word for city, "עִיר" (ir), often signifies not just a physical location but a community of people bound by covenant with God. The mention of the city here underscores the gravity of the events unfolding, as it was not just any city but the spiritual and political center of Judah. was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And the cityהָעִ֖יר (hā·‘îr) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement was kept וַתָּבֹ֥א (wat·tā·ḇō) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go under siege בַּמָּצ֑וֹר (bam·mā·ṣō·wr) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4692: Something hemming in, a mound, a siege, distress, a fastness until עַ֚ד (‘aḏ) Preposition Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while King לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (lam·me·leḵ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4428: A king Zedekiah’s צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃ (ṣiḏ·qî·yā·hū) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 6667: Zedekiah -- 'Yah is righteousness', six Israelites eleventh עַשְׁתֵּ֣י (‘aš·tê) Number - common singular construct Strong's 6249: Eleven, eleventh year. שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8141: A year Links 2 Kings 25:2 NIV2 Kings 25:2 NLT 2 Kings 25:2 ESV 2 Kings 25:2 NASB 2 Kings 25:2 KJV 2 Kings 25:2 BibleApps.com 2 Kings 25:2 Biblia Paralela 2 Kings 25:2 Chinese Bible 2 Kings 25:2 French Bible 2 Kings 25:2 Catholic Bible OT History: 2 Kings 25:2 So the city was besieged to (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) |