Jer 39:1-7 | NASB2020 | STEP | Now when Jerusalem was captured in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah , in the tenth month , Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;

Jeremiah 39:1-7

Jerusalem Captured

1 ^{▼▼Ch 38:28b in Heb}Now when Jerusalem was captured ^{▼▼Ch 39:1 in Heb
,} ^cin the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it; 2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was ^dbreached. 3 Then all the ^eofficials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the ^fMiddle Gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the ^{▼▼I.e., chief official}Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the ^{▼▼I.e., title of a high official}Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon. 4 And when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they ⁱfled and left the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate ^jbetween the two walls; and he went out toward the ^{▼▼I.e., Jordan valley}Arabah. 5 But the army of the ^lChaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the ^mplains of Jericho; and they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at ⁿRiblah in the land of Hamath, and he ^{▼▼Lit spoke judgments with}passed sentence on him. 6 Then the ^pking of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah ^qbefore his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slaughtered all the ^rnobles of Judah. 7 He then ^sblinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in ^tshackles of bronze to bring him to ^uBabylon.