Jeremiah 52:5

5 It was surrounded until the 11th year of King Zedekiah's rule.

Jeremiah 52:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 52:5

So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King
Zedekiah.
] The siege continued about eighteen months; from the tenth day of the tenth month, in the ninth of Zedekiah's reign, to the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of his reign; as follows:

Jeremiah 52:5 In-Context

3 The enemies of Jerusalem and Judah attacked them because the LORD was angry. In the end he threw them out of his land. Zedekiah refused to obey the king of Babylonia.

4 Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylonia. He marched out against Jerusalem. All of his armies went with him. It was in the ninth year of the rule of Zedekiah. It was on the tenth day of the tenth month. The armies set up camp outside the city. They set up ladders and built ramps and towers all around it.

5 It was surrounded until the 11th year of King Zedekiah's rule.

6 By the ninth day of the fourth month, there wasn't any food left in the city. So the people didn't have anything to eat.

7 Then the Babylonians broke through the city wall. Judah's whole army ran away. They left the city at night. They went out through the gate between the two walls that were near the king's garden. They escaped even though the Babylonians surrounded the city. Judah's army ran toward the Arabah Valley.