2 The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
2 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
2 The city was under siege for nineteen months (until the eleventh year of Zedekiah).
2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
2 Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Kings 25:2
Commentary on 2 Kings 25:1-7
(Read 2 Kings 25:1-7)
Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffices to say, that the impiety and misery of the besieged were very great. At length the city was taken by storm. The king, his family, and his great men escaped in the night, by secret passages. But those deceive themselves who think to escape God's judgments, as much as those who think to brave them. By what befell Zedekiah, two prophecies, which seemed to contradict each other, were both fulfilled. Jeremiah prophesied that Zedekiah should be brought to Babylon, Ezekiel 12:13. He was brought thither, but his eyes being put out, he did not see it.