And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
- KJV And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
- NKJV In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.
- NASB in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.
- NLT Two and a half years later, on July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, a section of the city wall was broken down.
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Quick answer
After about a year and a half, the Babylonians breach Jerusalem's wall in Zedekiah's eleventh year.
Overview
The city's defenses are finally broken in the fourth month of the eleventh year. The dated record shows the relentless certainty of the judgment Jeremiah announced. Everything the prophet warned of, against all the people's false hopes, comes precisely to pass.
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Cross-references · 6
- Ezek 33:21In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
- Mic 2:12–13I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
- Jer 52:6–7By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- Jer 5:10Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
- Zeph 1:10On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.
- 2 Kgs 25:3–4By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
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