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## Jeremiah 39:1 in Context (Verses 1–4 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/jeremiah/39/1) In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/jeremiah/39/2) *And* in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth *day* of the month, the city was broken up.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/jeremiah/39/3) And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, *even* Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/jeremiah/39/4) ¶ And it came to pass, *that* when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
 
[Jeremiah 38](/kjv/jeremiah/38) [Jeremiah 40](/kjv/jeremiah/40)

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