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Chapter 39

The Capture of Jerusalem. When Jerusalem was taken, in the ninth year of Zedekiah,(A) king of Judah, in the tenth month,[a] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army marched against Jerusalem and placed it under siege. In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the fourth month,[b] the city wall was breached.

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Footnotes

  1. 39:1 In the ninth year…in the tenth month: the month Tebet (mid-December to mid-January) of the year 589/588 B.C., according to the Babylonian calendar, whose New Year began in March/April.
  2. 39:2 In the eleventh year…the ninth day of the fourth month: in July, 587 B.C.