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2 Kings 25:1

So 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.

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ASV

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

KJV

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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23 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיְהִי֩vay.Hiand it wasH1961 →
בִשְׁנַ֨תvish.Natin [the] yearH8141 →
הַתְּשִׁיעִ֜יתha.te.shi.'It<of the> ninthH8671 →
לְמָלְכ֗וֹle.ma.le.Khoof reigning hisH4427 →
בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320 →
הָעֲשִׂירִי֮ha.'a.si.Ri<the> tenthH6224 →
בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹרbe.'a.Soron the tenH6218 →
לַחֹדֶשׁ֒la.cho.Deshof the monthH2320 →
בָּ֠אba'he cameH935 →
נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֨רne.vu.khad.ne.TzarNebuchadnezzarH5019 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428 →
בָּבֶ֜לba.VelBabylonH894 →
ה֧וּאhu'heH1931 →
וְכָל־ve.kholand allH3605 →
חֵיל֛וֹchei.Loarmy hisH2428 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖םye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389 →
וַיִּ֣חַןvai.Yi.chanand he encampedH2583 →
עָלֶ֑יהָ'a.Lei.haon itH5921 →
וַיִּבְנ֥וּvai.yiv.Nuand they builtH1129 →
עָלֶ֖יהָ'a.Lei.haon itH5921 →
דָּיֵ֥קda.Yeka siege-wallH1785 →
סָבִֽיב׃sa.Vivall aroundH5439 →

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Jeremiah 52:4–11So 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.Ezekiel 24:2“Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.Jeremiah 34:1–6This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.Jeremiah 43:10Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.Isaiah 29:3I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.1 Chronicles 6:15Jehozadak went into captivity when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.Lamentations 1:17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.Ezekiel 4:1–8“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.Ezekiel 21:22–24In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.2 Chronicles 36:17–21So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.2 Kings 24:10At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.Luke 19:43–44For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.Jeremiah 39:1–10In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.Jeremiah 32:24See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!Ezekiel 24:1–14In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,Jeremiah 27:8As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

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