Jeremiah 39:2
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
Jeremiah 39:2 in other translations
| BSB | And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached. |
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| WEB | In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. |
| ASV | in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city), |
| YLT | in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up; |
| DARBY | In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was broken into; |
| BBE | In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:) |
| Webster | And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. |
What does Jeremiah 39:2 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 39:1-10
The taking of Jerusalem. (Jr 39:1-10) Jeremiah used well. (Jr 39:11-14) Promises of safety to Ebed-melech. (Jr 39:15-18) Verses 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…
Jeremiah 39:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 39:2
- Jeremiah 52:6-7
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. 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.
- Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
- Micah 2:12-13
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.
- 2 Kings 25:3-4
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 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.
- Zephaniah 1:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
- 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 unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
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Context
- Jeremiah 39:1
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
- Jeremiah 39:2
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
- Jeremiah 39:3
And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal–sharezer, Samgar–nebo, Sarsechim, Rab–saris, Nergal–sharezer, Rab–mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 39:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y en el undécimo año de Sedechîas, en el mes cuarto, á los nueve del mes, fué rota la ciudad; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | En la onzième année de Sédécias, au quatrième mois, le neuvième jour du mois, la brèche fut faite à la ville. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | im elften Jahre Zedekias, im vierten Monat, am Neunten des Monats, wurde die Stadt erbrochen, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Undecimo autem anno Sedeciæ, mense quarto, quinta mensis, aperta est civitas: |