In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all round.
2 Chronicles 36:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. American Standard Version (1901) Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: Common English Bible Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. Catholic Public Domain Version Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. |
In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all round.
It also came throughout the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.
At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur from Gibeon said to me in the temple of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people,
But this is what the Lord says concerning the king sitting on David’s throne and concerning all the people living in this city #– #that is, concerning your brothers who did not go with you into exile.
‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go, speak to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, “This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it.
He and his officers and the people of the land did not obey the words of the Lord that he spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.