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What does 2 Kings 25:2 mean?
"So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah."
— 2 Kings 25:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
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