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Jeremiah 39:1-3
Christian Standard Bible
Jeremiah 39:1-3
Christian Standard Bible
The Fall of Jerusalem to Babylon
39 In the ninth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to it.(A) 2 In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.(B) 3 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.(C)
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- 39:3 LXX; MT reads Samgar-nebu, Sarsechim
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