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Zedekiah disobeyed the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done, and it was Zedekiah who finally rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.[a]

The people of Judah and Jerusalem had made the Lord so angry that he finally turned his back on them. That's why horrible things were happening there.

(A) In Zedekiah's ninth year as king, on the tenth day of the tenth month,[b] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia led his entire army to attack Jerusalem. The troops set up camp outside the city and built ramps up to the city walls.

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Footnotes

  1. 52.3 Nebuchadnezzar: See the note at 21.2.
  2. 52.4 tenth month: See the note at 39.1-3.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, just as Jehoiakim(A) had done. It was because of the Lord’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah,(B) and in the end he thrust them from his presence.(C)

Now Zedekiah rebelled(D) against the king of Babylon.

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth(E) day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem(F) with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works(G) all around it.(H)

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