Jeremiah 52:4

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Summary

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

The ninth year

Jeremiah 39:1

2 Kings 25:1

Ezekiel 24:1

In the tenth month

Zechariah 8:19

Pitched

General references

Deuteronomy 28:52

Bible References

The ninth year

Now when Jerusalem was captured

in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying,

In the tenth month

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.’

Pitched

Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were

all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

“Shepherds and their flocks will come to her,
They will pitch their tents around her,
They will pasture each in his place.

Behold, the siege ramps have reached the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has come to pass; and behold, You see it.

I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.

I will camp against you encircling you,
And I will set siegeworks against you,
And I will raise up battle towers against you.

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
And in whose ways they were not willing to walk,
And whose law they did not obey?

“Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.