Jeremiah 39:2

2 And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.

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 Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

2 And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.

3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rabsares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

4 And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king’s garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert.

5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.