And on the ninth day of the fourth(A) month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city wall(B) was broken through.(C) Then all the officials(D) of the king of Babylon came and took seats in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer a high official and all the other officials of the king of Babylon.

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On the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of the reign of[a] Zedekiah, the wall of[b] the city was breached. All the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate, including[c] Nergal-sarri-usur, governor[d] of Sinmagir,[e] Nabu-sarrussu-ukin the high official,[f] Nergal-sarri-user, the chief official,[g] and[h] all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 39:2 The Heb. lacks of the reign of
  2. Jeremiah 39:2 The Heb. lacks the wall of
  3. Jeremiah 39:3 The Heb. lacks including
  4. Jeremiah 39:3 Or high official
  5. Jeremiah 39:3 I.e. a province of Babylon
  6. Jeremiah 39:3 Lit. the Rab-sa-resi; a Babylonian title for a royal official
  7. Jeremiah 39:3 Lit. the Rab-mugi, a Babylonian title for a royal official
  8. Jeremiah 39:3 Or Gate: Nergal-sarezer, Samgar-nebu, Sarsekim, the high official, Nergal-sarezer, the chief official, and