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.
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2 Kings 25:3On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Jeremiah 5:10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy, but make not a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not LORD's.
Ezekiel 33:21And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that [a man] who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is smitten.
Zephaniah 1:10And in that day, says LORD, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 39:2-11
Jerusalem Taken. ( b. c. 588.) 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king… Read the whole commentary →