2 Kings 25:1 meaning and explanation
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
2 Kings 25:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator dates the start of Jerusalem's fall precisely, in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, because this is the covenant curse arriving. Zedekiah had rebelled against Babylon despite Jeremiah's counsel to submit, and now Nebuchadnezzar brings his whole army and builds a siege wall, a ring of earthworks and towers that sealed the city.
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