Jeremiah 39:2

Jeremiah 39:2 

And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

a. ASV: In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

b. YLT: In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up;

c. Classic Amplified: And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, they broke into the city.

d. Septuagint [In the Septuagint Jeremiah 39:1-3 & 39:14-18 are found in Jeremiah 46:1-3 & 46:14-18]: And in the eleventh year of Sedekias, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken [up]. 

e. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/ Writings: And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was breached).

1. “And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah…” 

a. [And in the] eleventh [Strong: 6249  ʻashtêy, ash-tay'; apparently masculine plural construction of H6247 in the sense of an afterthought (used only in connection with H6240 in lieu of H259) eleven or (ordinal) eleventh:— eleven(-th).]

b. [And in the] eleventh [Strong: 6240 ʻâsâr, aw-sawr'; for H6235; ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth:—(eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-) teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).]

c. year [Strong: 8141 shâneh, shaw-neh'; (in plural or (feminine) שָׁנָה shânâh; from H8138; a year (as a revolution of time):— whole age, × long, old, year(× -ly).]

d. [of] Zedekiah [Strong: 6667 Tsidqîyâh, tsid-kee-yaw'; or צִדְקִיָּהוּ Tsidqîyâhûw; from H6664 and H3050; right of Jah; Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites:—Zedekiah, Zidkijah.]

2. “...in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.”

a. [in the] fourth [Strong: 7243 rᵉbîyʻîy, reb-ee-ee'; or רְבִעִי rᵉbiʻîy; from H7251; fourth; also (fractionally) a fourth:—foursquare, fourth (part).]

b. month [Strong: 2320 chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.]

c. [the] ninth [day] [Strong: 8672 têshaʻ, tay'-shah; or (masculine) תִּשְׁעָה tishʻâh; perhaps from H8159 through the idea of a turn to the next or full number ten; nine or (ordinal) ninth:—nine (+ -teen, + -teenth, -th).]

d. [of the] month [Strong: 2320 chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.]

e. [the] city [Strong: 5892 ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.]

f. [was] broken up [Strong: 1234 bâqaʻ, baw-kah'; a primitive root; to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open:—make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.

1). The siege lasted 18 months. They completely blocked Jerusalem from getting food. Which caused them to eat their children and any who died. This was prophesied by Moses 900 years previously.

a). Jeremiah 39:1, 2 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

39:2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

b). Jeremiah 19:4-9 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

c). Deuteronomy 28:47-57 Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

28:49 The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.