In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.(A) All the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar, Nebusarsechim[a] the chief of staff, Nergal-sharezer the chief soothsayer, and all the rest of the officials of Babylon’s king.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 39:3 LXX; MT reads Samgar-nebu, Sarsechim

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the fourth month, they broke through the city walls. Then all the commanding officers of the king of Babylon—Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo,[a] Sarsechim the chief officer, Nergal-sharezer the field commander—entered it and took their places at the middle gate with the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 39:3 Or Nergal-sharezer the Simmagir