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English Standard Version

2 Kings 24:11

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Captivity;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jehoiachin;   Jerusalem;   Prophecy;   Siege;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Jerusalem;   Kings;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Jehoiachin;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Jehoiachin;   Jeremiah;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Jehoiachin ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoiachin;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeho-I'achin;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Jehoiachin;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
Hebrew Names Version
Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
King James Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
New Century Version
Nebuchadnezzar himself came to the city while his officers were attacking it.
New English Translation
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.
Amplified Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
New American Standard Bible
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.
World English Bible
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel came against the citie, and his seruants did besiege it.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.
Berean Standard Bible
And King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
Contemporary English Version
During the attack, Nebuchadnezzar himself arrived at the city.
Complete Jewish Bible
N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel himself went to the city while it was under siege;
Darby Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, while his servants were besieging it.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city.
George Lamsa Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants were besieging it.
Good News Translation
During the siege Nebuchadnezzar himself came to Jerusalem,
Lexham English Bible
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.
Literal Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants lay siege to it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan Nabuchodonosor and his seruauntes came to the cite they layed sege vnto it.
American Standard Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Bible in Basic English
And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came against the citie, and his seruauntes did besiege it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it.
King James Version (1611)
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the citie, and his seruants did besiege it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
English Revised Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Nabugodonosor, kyng of Babiloyne, cam to the citee with hise seruauntis, that he schulde fiyte ayens it.
Update Bible Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his slaves were besieging it;
Webster's Bible Translation
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
New King James Version
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his servants were besieging it.
New Living Translation
Nebuchadnezzar himself arrived at the city during the siege.
New Life Bible
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city, while his soldiers were all around it trying to take it.
New Revised Standard
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants were about to besiege it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his servants, to assault it.
Revised Standard Version
And Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
Young's Literal Translation
and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon cometh against the city, and his servants are laying siege to it,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.

Contextual Overview

8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord , according to all that his father had done. 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign 13 and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord , which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold. 14 He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land. 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war. 17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:52 - General Isaiah 29:3 - General Isaiah 36:17 - I come

Cross-References

Genesis 24:13
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:14
Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels'—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master."
Genesis 24:20
So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels.
Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
1 Samuel 9:11
As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, "Is the seer here?"
Proverbs 12:10
Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
John 4:7
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city,.... He came in person, following his army:

and his servants did besiege it; very closely.


 
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