Jeremiah 52:5

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4So 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.

6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 31:1In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third 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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