Jeremiah 39:2-9 In the eleventh year to Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth to the month, the city was broken.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ² In the eleventh year to Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth to the month, the city was broken. ³ And all the chiefs of the king of Babel will come and sit in the middle gate, Nergal-Sarezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sharezer, Rab-Mag, and all the remainder of the chiefs of the king of Babel. ⁴ And it will be as Zedekiah king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, and they will flee and go forth at night from the city the way of the king's garden, in the gate between the two walls: and he will go forth the way of the desert ⁵ And the army of the Chaldeans will pursue after them, and they will overtake Zedekiah in the sterile region of Jericho, and they will take him and bring him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, to Riblah in the hand of Hamath, and he will speak with him judgments. ⁶ And the king of Babel will slaughter the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: and all the nobles of Judah the king of Babel slaughtered. ⁷ And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and he will bind him with fetters of brass to bring him to Babel. ⁸ And the Chaldeans burnt the house of the king, and the house of the people, with fire, and they broke the walls of Jerusalem. ⁹ And the remainder of the people being left in the city, and those falling away which fell to him, and the remainder of the people being left, Nebuzaradan chief of the cooks, carried away captive to Babel.