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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

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign

on Jeremiah 52:4-7

The siege begins “on the tenth day of the tenth month” of Zedekiah’s ninth year. A year and a half later “the people of the land had no food.” The men of war flee “by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden.”

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

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Studies1

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
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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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