Jeremiah 52:5

And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedecias.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about.

6And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 31:1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third month, the first day of the month, that 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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