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Jeremiah 52:5

in Jeremiah 52

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Jeremiah 52

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. The siege continued about eighteen months; from the tenth day of the tenth month, in the ninth of Zedekiah's reign, to the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of his reign; as follows:

This site's exposition

in the ninth year of his reign

on Jeremiah 52:4-7

The siege is dated to the day, the ninth year, tenth month, tenth day, the same years Ezekiel dates his own oracles by from among the exiles already in Babylon, the two books sharing one clock though written from opposite ends of the siege. Famine grows sore in the city by the eleventh year's fourth month (v6), roughly a year and a half of siege spelled out in the gap between the two dates. The flight by night through the two walls by the king's garden retraces the same escape chapter 39 has already narrated, this appendix repeating what the book's own narrative section already told in full.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

So the city was besieged - It held out one year and six months.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתָּבֹ֥אand it came

    vatavo'H935 →2568 times

  • הָעִ֖ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • בַּמָּצ֑וֹרin <the> state of siege

    bamatzorH4692 →25 times

  • עַ֚דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • עַשְׁתֵּ֣יone [plus]

    ʾashteiH6249 →19 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֣הten

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • שָׁנָ֔הyear

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • לַמֶּ֖לֶךְof the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃Zedekiah

    tzidkiyahuH6667 →63 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 52 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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