Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Jeremiah 39

• Jeremiah foretells the END of Babylon. PROOF ONE.

The Fall of Jerusalem

Jeremiah 39:¹ 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.

Jeremiah 39:² In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month (Tammuz), on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated (the city wall was breached).

Jeremiah 39:³ 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.

Jeremiah 39:⁴ 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 (Or Arabah; the Jordan Valley).

Jeremiah 39:⁵ But the Chaldean (Babyloniank) 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.

 Jeremiah 39:⁶ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Jeremiah 39:⁷ Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with bronze fetters (chains) to carry him off to Babylon.

Jeremiah 39:⁸ And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 39:⁹ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.

Jeremiah 39:¹⁰ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left in the land of Judah the poor people, who had nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time (Lit. on that day).

Jeremiah Goes Free

Jeremiah 39:¹¹ Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

Jeremiah 39:¹² “Take him and look after him, and do him no harm; but do to him just as he says to you.”

Jeremiah 39:¹³ So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent Nebushasban, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s chief officers;

• Note: It was Nergal-Sharezer who murdered his brother-in-law, Evil-Merodach, the King of Babylon, following Nebuchadnezzar’s death.

Jeremiah 39:¹⁴ then they sent someone to take Jeremiah from the court of the prison, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.

• Note: In Jeremiah 36 (Quantum Study Bible’s: Who’s Who): A Gemariah is listed as the son of Shaphan. (Is there a connection?)

• According to a Babylonian edict, Jeremiah went to Mizpah in Benjamin with Gedaliah, who had been made governor of Judea, (Jeremiah 40:5-6). Gedaliah was assassinated, and subsequently replaced with Johanan, who fled to Egypt with Jeremiah, Baruch, and King Zedekiah’s daughters.

• In II Maccabees 2:4ff Jeremiah is credited with hiding the Ark of the Covenant, the incense altar, and the tabernacle on the mountain of Moses.

Jeremiah 39:¹⁵ Meanwhile the word of the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) had come to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Jeremiah 39:¹⁶ “Go and speak to Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts (yᵊhōvâ ṣāḇā’), the God (‘ĕlōhîm) of Israel: “Behold, I will bring My words upon this city for adversity and not for good, and they shall be performed in that day before you.

Jeremiah 39:¹⁷ But I will deliver you in that day,” says the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) “and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

Jeremiah 39:¹⁸ For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me,” says the Lord (yᵊhōvâ).’ ”

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• There are two Nergal-Sharezer/Sarezers.

• ►At Nebuchadnezzer’s death, Evil Merodach takes the throne as Nebuchadnezzar’s son (in-law) having married his daughter. He only reigned two years before being murdered by Nergal-Sharezer, who then took the throne.
  
• Nergal-Sharezer was not part of Nebuchadnezzar’s lineage.
  
• ►Nergal-Sharezer was the brother-in-law of Evil Merodach.

FIRST PROOF OF GOD’S WORD:

Jeremiah foretold the end of the Babylonian kingdom in Jeremiah 27:6-7.
@Prophecy Alert: Proof of God and Scripture.

“And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. So all nations shall serve him (Nebuchadnezzar) and his son (Evil-Merodach) and his son’s son (Belshazzar of Daniel 5), until the time of his land comes (At Belshazzar’s feast by Cyrus, King of the Medes and Persians); and then many nations and great kings shall make him (Babylon) serve them (Medes & Persians, Greece, Seleucus’ Syria, and the future Kingdom of the Antichrist).

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{1 of 4} Jeremiah 39 – “Seven Proofs of God and Scripture” [Nebuchadnezzar’s Line]
{2 of 4} Jeremiah 39 – “Seven Proofs of God and Scripture” [Historical Narrative]
{3 of 4} Jeremiah 39 – “Seven Proofs of God and Scripture” [Prophesies for Babylon]
{4 of 4} Jeremiah 39 – “Seven Proofs of God and Scripture” [Names and Archeology]

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