2 Kings 25:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

In the tenth day] The successive stages in the overthrow of the city are carefully marked by the historian: cp. 2 Kings 25:3; 2 Kings 25:8. Forts] perhaps movable towers for throwing troops upon the walls.

2 Kings 25:1

1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.