[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.
Verse 2. The eleventh year – in the fourth month] This month in the Hebrew calendar is called Thammuz, and commences with the first new moon of our July. The siege had lasted just eighteen months.
The city was broken up.] A breach was made in the wall by which the Chaldeans entered.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The siege lasted a year and half, for it was the fourth month of Zedekiahs eleventh year before it was taken: it is said here to be broken up, because their way of taking fortified places then was by beating down the walls of the besieged with iron rams and engines, as we now do with great guns. This kingdom had now held three hundred and eighty years, from Rehoboam their first king, in which they had had twenty kings (besides Athaliah). The ten tribes had been now in captivity one hundred and thirty years, so as the kingdom of Israel stood but two hundred and fifty years after the division, in which time they had had eighteen princes, but of several families; all the kings of Judah were of the house of David, lineally descended from him.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,…. The month Tammuz, which answers to part of June, and part of July:
the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up; or taken by storm; the walls of it were broken by engines and battering rams, so that the Chaldeans could enter it, and take it. This was just a year and a half after it had been besieged, not being able to hold out any longer, because of the famine; see Jer 52:6.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
It then follows, In the eleventh year, in the fourth month, the city was broken up We hence see that the city was besieged for a year and half; for there was the whole of the tenth year, and then added must be two months of the ninth year and four months of the eleventh year; and thus a year and half was the whole time. Here also we must remember how much the Jews must have suffered; for were a city at this day to bear a siege for a few months, it would appear a rare instance of valor; but Jerusalem was besieged for a year and half. Let us now consider what number of people must have been there, and we have seen that the Prophet threatened them with famine. And how much scarcity there was in the city, the Prophet has not only testified elsewhere, but in the book of Lamentations he has shewed most fully. (Lam 4:10.) And there was not only famine, but it was followed by pestilence. We hence learn how ferocious must have been the character of the king, that he could see miserable men perishing by scores, and yet persist in his obstinacy. Nor is there a doubt but that the people were also on their part obstinate, and became at length stupefied through their sufferings; for there was hardly one, from the least to the greatest, who did not despise what the Prophet taught; and thus they were all blinded by madness and stupidity.
It ought to be noticed that they bore a siege for a year and six months, and that they were not even then persuaded to surrender themselves, until the city was broken up, that is, until the walls were beaten down by battering-rams and other warlike engines; for the city was broken when the wall, beaten by the engines, fell down. In short, the city was gained by storm; this is what is meant, and will hereafter be more fully expressed. But I cannot proceed further now.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Jer 39:2 [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.
Ver. 2. And in the eleventh year. ] See on 2Ki 25:2 . The sacking of Jerusalem occured four hundred and nineteen years after the building of the temple, (1004 to 588 BC) in the forty-seventh Olympiad, and when Tarquinius Priseus was king of Rome.
The city was broken up.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
broken up. Compare Ch. Jer 52:6; which explains that provisions had failed before then.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
fourth month
i.e. July.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
am 3416, bc 588
the fourth: This was the month Tammuz, which commences with the first moon of July: the siege had lasted just eighteen months. 2Ki 25:3
was: Jer 5:10, Jer 52:6, Jer 52:7, 2Ki 25:4, Eze 33:21, Mic 2:12, Mic 2:13, Zep 1:10
Reciprocal: Jer 20:5 – I will deliver Jer 21:2 – for Jer 24:8 – So will Jer 32:1 – in the Jer 34:22 – shall fight Jer 37:8 – General Jer 41:1 – the seventh month Lam 2:9 – gates Eze 4:2 – lay Eze 12:5 – Dig thou Eze 26:1 – General Zec 8:19 – the fourth
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 39:2. The city endured the in-convenience and suffering of the siege for about three years when it was finally taken. Broken up is from baqu, which Strong defines, A primitive root; to cleave; generally to rend, break, rip or open.” The phrase denotes that a breach was made fn the walls of the city which would let the Babylonian army enter. That would mean the capturing of the city as the people were not in any condition, either in body or mind, for putting Up any resistance, having undergone the ravages of famine for several years.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
39:2 [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken {a} up.
(a) The gates and walls were broken down.