Jeremiah 52:5

The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. He set up camp around the city and built siege ramps against the walls.

6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 31:1On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year, a message from 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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