Study it in the app“Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.”
Then allכֹּלthe princesשָׂרֵיof the kingמֶלֶךְof Babylonבָּבֶלcameוַיָּבֹאוּand satוַיֵּשְׁבוּin the MiddleהַתָּוֶךְGate:בְּשַׁעַרNergal-sharezer,נֵרְגַל שַׂר אֶצֶרSamgar-nebo,סַמְגַּר נְבוּSarsechimשַׂר סְכִיםthe Rabsaris,רַב סָרִיסNergal-sharezerנֵרְגַל שַׂר אֶצֶרthe Rabmag,רַב מָגand allוְכָלthe restשְׁאֵרִיתof the princesשָׂרֵיof the kingמֶלֶךְof Babylon.בָּבֶל
chief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sare” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsBabel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “yavou” appearssit
To sit; or sit on the throne to reign.
Where else “yeshvu” appearsmidst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “tavech” appearsgate
The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
Where else “shaar” appearsNergal-sharezer
Nergal-sharezer: the name of Babylonian officials present when Jerusalem was taken (Jeremiah 39:3, 13).
Where else “nergal” appearsSamgar-nebo
Samgar-nebo: a Babylonian official (how the name is divided is uncertain).
Where else “samgar” appearsSarsechim
Sarsechim: a Babylonian official.
Where else “sar” appearsRabsaris
Rabsaris. Not a personal name but a title of the court of Assyria and of Babylon: "chief of the officials" or "chief of the eunuchs" (2 Kings 18:17; Jeremiah 39:3, 13).
Where else “rav” appearsRabmag
Rabmag: the title of a high Babylonian official.
Where else “rav” appearsremnant
Remnant: those left alive after a disaster.
Where else “sheerit” appears“Rabsaris” and “Rabmag” are titles of Babylonian offices. It is not certain how the names in this verse are divided.
Babylon
Today: Babylon ruins, near Hillah, Iraq
A great city on the Euphrates River, in present-day Iraq, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Baghdad.
In its land the languages were confused at Babel (Gen 11:9). Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive there (2 Kgs 25:1-11). Daniel lived there (Dan 1:1-6).
2In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was breached.
3 · This verse (above)
4And it happened, when Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went out by night from the city by way of the garden of the king, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out by way of the Arabah.
