Jeremiah 39:1 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

¹ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it. ² And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of king Sedecias, ³ The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. ⁴ And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness. ⁵ And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him were scattered, and left him: ⁶ So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him. ⁷ And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and he put out his eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon. ⁸ In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, the same is the nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan, commander of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem. ⁹ And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire. ¹⁰ And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander of the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. ¹¹ And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people. ¹² But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about. ⁵ And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedecias. ⁶ And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land. ⁷ And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying: ² Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the king of Babylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day.

¹⁹ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great solemnities: only love ye truth and peace.