King James Version
2 Kings 25:2 in the King James Version says “And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 25 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.”
2 Kings 25:2 · KJV
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
something hemming in, i.e., (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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