The siege lasted almost exactly a year and a half. Its calamities—famine, pestilence, and intense suffering—are best understood from the Lamentatio…

Until the eleventh year. —The siege lasted altogether one year, five months, and twenty-seven days (2 Kings 25:1 compa…

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood,
overlaid with gold
For it w…

Jerusalem was so fortified that it could not be taken until famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jere…