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And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, they broke into the city.

[[a]When Jerusalem was taken] all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim [the Rabsaris] a chief of the eunuchs, and Nergal-sharezer [II, the Rabmag] a chief of the magicians, with all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

And when Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went forth out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and [the king] went out toward the Arabah (the Jordan Valley).

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 39:3 This clause has been supplied from the end of chapter 38, where, according to many authorities, many translations have wrongly placed it.

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