Jeremiah 39:1-3

New Living Translation

The Fall of Jerusalem

39 In January^[a] of the ninth year of King Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar^[b] of Babylon came with his entire army to besiege Jerusalem. ²Two and a half years later, on July 18^[c] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, a section of the city wall was broken down. ³All the officers of the Babylonian army came in and sat in triumph at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, and Nebo-sarsekim,^[d] a chief officer, and Nergal-sharezer, the king’s adviser, and all the other officers of the king of Babylon.

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Footnotes

39:1a Hebrew In the tenth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of events in Jeremiah can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This event occurred on January 15, 588 B.c.; see 52:4a and the note there.
39:1b Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar; also in 39:5, 11.
39:2 Hebrew On the ninth day of the fourth month. This day was July 18, 586 B.c.; also see note on 39:1a.
39:3 Or Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsekim.