Jeremiah 52:5

So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.

6In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 31:1Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 52:2-12

Jerusalem Taken by Nebuchadnezzar. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord , according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to… Read the whole commentary →

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