Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 39:2

2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the city was broken up .

The Siege lasted a year and half, for it was the 4th. Moneth of Zedekiah's 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 R[illegible: 1 letter]ms and Engines, as we now do with great Guns. This Kingdom had now held 380 years, from Rehobo[illegible: 1 letter]m their first King, in which they had had twenty Kings (besides Athaliah). The ten Tribes, had been now in Captivity 130 years so as the Kingdom of Israel stood but 250 years after the division in which time they had had 18 Princes, but of several Families all the Kings of Iudah were of the house of David, lineally descended from him.