2 Kings 25:2

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And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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  • Jer 52:3-8
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    3And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

    4And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.

    5So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

    6In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

    7Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.

    8And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.

  • 2 Kgs 25:1
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    1Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.

  • Jer 39:1-2
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    1And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;

    2In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)

  • 2 Kgs 25:3-4
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    3Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

    4So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:10-12
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    10At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.

    11And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;

    12Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.

  • 2 Chr 36:10-11
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    10In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

    11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

  • 2 Kgs 25:6-10
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    6And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.

    7And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

    8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;

    9And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;

    10And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

  • Jer 32:1-3
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    1The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

    2Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.

    3For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

  • Dan 1:1
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    1In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces.

  • Ezek 33:21
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    21Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken.

  • Jer 1:3
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    3And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.

  • Jer 52:11-12
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    74%

    11And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

    12Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.

  • Jer 25:1-2
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    1The word which came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah; this was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

    2This word Jeremiah gave out to all the people of Judah and to those living in Jerusalem, saying,

  • Jer 34:1-2
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    1The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,

    2The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:

  • 2 Kgs 24:20
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    20And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

  • Ezek 26:1
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    1Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 24:1-2
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    1And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,

    2Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king of Babylon let loose the weight of his attack against Jerusalem on this very day.

  • Jer 21:3
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    3Then Jeremiah said to them, This is what you are to say to Zedekiah:

  • Jer 34:6-7
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    6Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

    7When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.

  • Jer 21:7
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    7And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.

  • Jer 38:28
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    28So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.

  • Jer 39:5
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    5But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.

  • Jer 39:7-8
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    7And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.

    8And the Chaldaeans put the king's house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.

  • Ezek 29:17
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    17Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 2 Sam 24:8
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    8So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

  • Jer 25:11
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    11All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.

  • Ezek 40:1
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    1In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.

  • Jer 21:10
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    10For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.