Jeremiah 39:2

2 In the eleventh year and fourth month, on the ninth day of Zedekiah's reign, they broke through into the city.

Jeremiah 39:2 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 39:2

[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,
&c.] The month Tammuz, which answers to part of June, and part of July: the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up;
or taken by storm; the walls of it were broken by engines and battering rams, so that the Chaldeans could enter it, and take it. This was just a year and a half after it had been besieged, not being able to hold out any longer, because of the famine; see ( Jeremiah 52:6 Jeremiah 52:7 ) .

Jeremiah 39:2 In-Context

1 In the ninth year and tenth month of Zedekiah king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with his entire army and laid siege to Jerusalem.

2 In the eleventh year and fourth month, on the ninth day of Zedekiah's reign, they broke through into the city.

3 All the officers of the king of Babylon came and set themselves up as a ruling council from the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Simmagar, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, along with all the other officials of the king of Babylon.

4 When Zedekiah king of Judah and his remaining soldiers saw this, they ran for their lives. They slipped out at night on a path in the king's garden through the gate between two walls and headed for the wilderness, toward the Jordan Valley.

5 The Babylonian army chased them and caught Zedekiah in the wilderness of Jericho. They seized him and took him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the country of Hamath. Nebuchadnezzar decided his fate.