2 Kings 25:2
Strong's Lexicon
And the city
הָעִ֖יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: 1) excitement, anguish 1a) of terror 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 2a) city, town

was kept
וַתָּבֹ֥א (wat·tā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a2) to come 1a2a) to come with 1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy) 1a2c) to come to pass 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated 1a5) to go 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead in 1b2) to carry in 1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon 1b4) to bring to pass 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought, brought in 1c2) to be introduced, be put

under siege
בַּמָּצ֑וֹר (bam·mā·ṣō·wr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4692: 1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works 1a) siege 1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart

until
עַ֚ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: prep 1) as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as 1a) of space 1a1) as far as, up to, even to 1b) in combination 1b1) from...as far as, both...and (with 'min' -from) 1c) of time 1c1) even to, until, unto, till, during, end 1d) of degree 1d1) even to, to the degree of, even like conj 2) until, while, to the point that, so that even

King
לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (lam·me·leḵ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4428: 1) king

Zedekiah’s
צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃ (ṣiḏ·qî·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6667: Zedekiah = 'Jehovah is righteous' 1) the last king of Judah renamed from 'Mattaniah' by Nebuchadnezzar; son of Josiah by wife Hamutal; placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar when he carried his nephew Jehoiakim in captivity 2) false prophet at the court of king Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel 3) son of Maaseiah, a false prophet in Babylon 4) son of Hananiah, one of the princes of Judah in the time of Jeremiah 5) a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah 6) son of king Jehoiakim of Judah

eleventh
עַשְׁתֵּ֣י (‘aš·tê)
Number - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6249: 1) one, eleven, eleventh 1a) one as combined with ten ( H06240)

עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה (‘eś·rêh)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6240: 1) ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers) 1a) used only in combination to make the numbers 11-19

year.
שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8141: 1) year 1a) as division of time 1b) as measure of time 1c) as indication of age 1d) a lifetime (of years of life)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

New American Standard Bible
So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

King James Bible
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Parallel Verses
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.

New American Standard Bible
So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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

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

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

NET Bible
The city remained 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.

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
















Cross References
2 Kings 25:1
And 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.

2 Kings 25:3
And 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.

Jeremiah 32:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

Jeremiah 52:5
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

2 Kings 1:1
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

2 Kings 24:20
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

2 Kings 24:19
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

2 Kings 25:4
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

2 Kings 25:5
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
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