2And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
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And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. …
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
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. …
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We were told, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that Jeremiah abode patiently in the court of the prison, until the day that Jerusalem was taken . He gave the princes no further disturbance by his prophesying, nor they him by their persecutions; for he had no more to say than what he had said, and, the siege being carried on briskly, God found them other work to do. See here what it came to.…
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