2 Kings 25:1
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a + 25:1 Or, circumvallation. mound against it.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias on the ninth day of the month.
Cross References
2 Kings 24:1In his days went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and Joakim became his servant three years; and then he turned and revolted from him.
2 Kings 25:8And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon), came Nabuzardan, + 25:8 Gr. chief cook. captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:11Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and be reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 29:3And I will compass you about like David, and will raise a mound about you, and set up towers round you.
Jeremiah 32:28And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You⌃ shall surely drink.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 25:1
Ever since David's time Jerusalem had been a celebrated place, beautiful for situation and the joy of the whole earth: while the book of psalms lasts that name will sound great. In the New Testament we read much of it, when it was, as here, ripening again for its ruin. In the close of the Bible we read of a new Jerusalem. Every thing therefore that concerns Jerusalem is worthy our regard. In this chapter we have, I. The utter destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, the city besieged and taken ( ver. 1-4 ), the… Read the whole commentary →