Jeremiah 39:2

2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.

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 of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.

3 Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sarezer, Rabmag, with the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

4 So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the plain.

5 But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.