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2 Kings 25:2

Old Testament Historical ASV (1901)

What does 2 Kings 25:2 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
2 Kings 25:2 — American Standard Version

Context — 2 Kings 25

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
1And 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.
2So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king`s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
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What do historical commentaries say?

Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“The siege lasted almost exactly a year and a half. Its calamities - famine, pestilence, and intense suffering - are best understood from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, written probably almost immediately after the capture. return to 'Top of Page'”
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