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Jeremiah 52:5 Cross-References
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“So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.”
Jeremiah 52:5 (KJV)
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Commentary on Jeremiah 52:5
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. This brief verse compresses approximately 30 months of unimaginable suffering into a single statement. The siege began in Zedekiah's ninth year, tenth month, tenth day (v. 4) and lasted unto the eleventh year—specifically until the fourth month, ninth day (v. 6). The Hebrew matsor (מָצוֹר, besieged) comes from the root meaning "to confine, bind, or hem in," conveying the claustrophobic horror of a city cut off from all outside resources.The duration's significance becomes clear in the next verse: by the siege's end, the famine w...
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