Jeremiah 39:2-4

Common English Bible

² In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the fourth month, they broke through the city walls. ³ 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.

⁴ When Judah’s King Zedekiah and his troops saw them, they tried to escape at night through the royal gardens and the gate between the two walls, toward the desert plain.