2 Kings 25:1
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a mound against it.
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In Context
2And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah on the ninth day of the month.
Cross References
2 Kings 24:1In his days went up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and Jehoiakim 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 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 29:3And I will compass thee about like David, and will raise a mound about thee, and set up towers round thee.
Jeremiah 32:28And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of thy hand, to drink it, that thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; Ye 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 →