Jeremiah 39:2 And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.

English Standard Version
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

New American Standard Bible
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.

King James Bible
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.

International Standard Version
On the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, the wall of the city was breached.

American Standard Version
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.

Darby Bible Translation
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was broken into;

Young's Literal Translation
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up;

Cross References

2 Kings 25:4
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

Jeremiah 1:3
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

Jeremiah 32:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, said the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 37:8
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 52:6
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 52:7
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

Ezekiel 4:3
Moreover take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5:2
You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 33:21
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is smitten.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

39:1-10 Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it was as weak as other cities. Zedekiah had his eyes put out; so he was condemned to darkness who had shut his eyes against the clear light of God's word. Those who will not believe God's words, will be convinced by the event. Observe the wonderful changes of Providence, how uncertain are earthly possessions; and see the just dealings of Providence: but whether the Lord makes men poor or rich, nothing will profit them while they cleave to their sins.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 39

Jer 39:1-18. Jerusalem Taken. Zedekiah's Fate. Jeremiah Cared for. Ebed-melech Assured.

This chapter consists of two parts: the first describes the capture of Jerusalem, the removal of the people to Babylon, and the fate of Zedekiah, and that of Jeremiah. The second tells of the assurance of safety to Ebed-melech.

1. ninth year … tenth month—and on the tenth day of it (Jer 52:4; 2Ki 25:1-4). From Jer 39:2, "eleventh year … fourth month … ninth day," we know the siege lasted one and a half years, excepting the suspension of it caused by Pharaoh. Nebuchadnezzar was present in the beginning of the siege, but was at Riblah at its close (Jer 39:3, 6; compare Jer 38:17).