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Myles Coverdale Bible

Jeremiah 52:5

And this beseginge of the cite endured vnto the xj yeare of kynge Sedechias.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jerusalem;   Zedekiah;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lance, Lancet;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zedekiah ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zedeki'ah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zedekiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
Hebrew Names Version
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Tzidkiyahu.
King James Version
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
English Standard Version
So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New American Standard Bible
So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New Century Version
And the city was under attack until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king.
Amplified Bible
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
World English Bible
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of the King Zedekiah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Berean Standard Bible
And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.
Contemporary English Version
After a year and a half, all the food in Jerusalem was gone. Then on the ninth day of the fourth month,
Complete Jewish Bible
The city remained under siege into the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu.
Darby Translation
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Easy-to-Read Version
The city of Jerusalem was surrounded by the army of Babylon until the eleventh year that Zedekiah was king.
George Lamsa Translation
So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Good News Translation
and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
Lexham English Bible
So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Literal Translation
And the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
American Standard Version
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Bible in Basic English
So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
King James Version (1611)
So the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of king Zedekiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this besiegyng of the citie endured vnto the eleuenth yere of kyng Zedekiah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias,
English Revised Version
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the citee was bisegid, til to the enleuenthe yeer of the rewme of Sedechie.
Update Bible Version
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Webster's Bible Translation
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
New English Translation
The city remained under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
New King James Version
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New Living Translation
Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.
New Life Bible
So the city was shut in by the army of the Babylonians until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
New Revised Standard
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the city came into the siege, - until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedecias.
Revised Standard Version
So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.
Young's Literal Translation
and the city cometh into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Contextual Overview

1 Sedechias was xxj. yeare olde, when he was made kynge, & he raigned xj. yeare in Ierusalem. His mothers name was Hamithal, Ieremies doughter of Lobna. 2 He lyued wickedly before the LORDE euen as Ioachim dyd. 3 Wherfore the LORDE was angrie at Ierusalem & Iuda, so longe till he had cast the out of his presence. And Sedechias fel from the kynge of Babilon. 4 But in ye ix. yeare of his raigne, In the teth Moneth, the tenth daye of the Moneth it happened, that Nabuchodonosor kynge of Babilon with all his hooste came before Ierusalem, & beseged it, & made them bulworkes rounde aboute it. 5 And this beseginge of the cite endured vnto the xj yeare of kynge Sedechias. 6 And in the fourth Moneth, the ix daye of the Moneth, there was so greate honger in the cite: that there were no more vitayles for the people of the londe. 7 So all the souldyers brake awaye, and fled out of the cite by night, thorow the waye of the porte betwene the two walles by the kynges garden. Now ye Caldees had copassed the cite rounde aboute, yet wente these men their waye towarde the wildernesse. 8 And so the Caldees folowed vpon them, and toke Sedechias the kinge in the felde of Iericho, when his hoost was runne from him. 9 So they caried the kynge awaye presoner to Reblatha, vnto the kinge of Babilon in the londe of Hemath, where he gaue iudgment vpon him. 10 The kinge of Babilo also caused Sedechias sonnes be slayne before his face, yee & put all the prynces of Iuda to death at Reblatha.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:5 - three years 2 Kings 25:1 - in the ninth Jeremiah 32:1 - in the Ezekiel 31:1 - in the eleventh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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:

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 52:5. So the city was besieged — It held out one year and six months.


 
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