Verse 5

Jeremiah 52:5

Free Bible Version

5 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/תָּבֹ֥א הָ/עִ֖יר בַּ/מָּצ֑וֹר עַ֚ד עַשְׁתֵּ֣י עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לַ/מֶּ֖לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ

English Translation

And the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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Chapter 52 Context

1 Zedekiah was twenty-one when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mothe... Focus ↗

2 He did evil in the Lord's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done. Focus ↗

3 All this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, because of the Lord's anger, until he eventually banished... Focus ↗

4 In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of... Focus ↗

5 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing...

6 Then the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers ran away, escaping at night through the... Focus ↗

7 but the Babylonian army chased after the king and caught up with him on the plains of Jericho. His w... Focus ↗

8 They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he sentenced him. Focus ↗

9 The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons while he watched, and also killed the officials of J... Focus ↗

10 Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him t... Focus ↗

11 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebu... Focus ↗

12 He burned down the Lord's Temple, the royal palace, and all the large buildings of Jerusalem. Focus ↗

13 Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, deported some of the poor people and those who were left in... Focus ↗

14 The Babylonians broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the movable carts, and the bronze Sea that bel... Focus ↗

15 They also took all the pots, shovels, lamp snuffers, sprinkling bowls, and all the other bronze item... Focus ↗

16 The commander of the guard removed the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes a... Focus ↗

17 The amount of bronze that came from the two columns, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and... Focus ↗

18 Each column was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits around. They were hollow with walls four fing... Focus ↗

19 The bronze capital on top of one column was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates... Focus ↗

20 There were ninety-six bronze pomegranates around each column. Above the network were a total of one... Focus ↗

21 The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah, the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest, second... Focus ↗

22 From those left in the city he took the officer in charge of the soldiers, and seven of the king's a... Focus ↗

23 Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took them and brought them before the king of Babylon at Ri... Focus ↗

24 The king of Babylon had them executed at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So the people of Judah had to... Focus ↗

25 This is a record of the number of people Nebuchadnezzar took into exile. In the seventh year of his... Focus ↗

26 In his eighteenth year Nebuchadnezzar took another 832 from Jerusalem. Focus ↗

27 In his twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took an... Focus ↗

28 In the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison... Focus ↗

29 So Jehoiachin was able to remove his prison clothes, and he ate frequently at the king's table for t... Focus ↗

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