Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 38:27:

• Kupsabiny: “Then those leaders came and asked me like that. I answered as the king had told me. So they left me because no one had seen me speak with the king.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Sure enough the officials went to the Jeremias and asked him. He answered them according to what the king has said to him. So they no longer keep questioning, for no one has-heard when Jeremias and the king talked-to-each-other.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “And that is what happened. The king’s officials came to me and asked why the king had summoned me. But I told them what the king told me to tell them. So they did not ask me any more questions, because no one had heard what the king and I had said to each other.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 38:28:

• Kupsabiny: “I stayed there in the courtyard of the guards until the day when Jerusalem was captured.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Jeremias remained a prisoner there in the courtyard of the guards until the day Jerusalem was captured.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So I remained being guarded in the courtyard of the palace, until the day that the army of Babylonia captured Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 39:1:

• Kupsabiny: “In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah having ruled Judea, king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and all his soldiers attacked and surrounded/besieged Jerusalem.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “This is how Jerusalem was captured/placed-under-jurisdiction: On the tenth month of the ninth year of the reign of Zedekia in Juda, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babilonia and all his soldiers attacked Jerusalem.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “After King Zedekiah had been ruling Judah for almost nine years, King Nebuchadnezzar came in January with his army, and they surrounded Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 39:2:

• Kupsabiny: “And on the ninth day of the fourth month in the eleventh year of Zedekiah having ruled, the wall of the city was broken through.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “And on the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, those whose-from-Babilonia broke-through the walls of the city.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “One and a half years later, after Zedekiah had been ruling for almost eleven years, on July 18, soldiers from Babylonia broke through the city wall. Then they rushed in and captured the city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 39:3:

• Kupsabiny: “Then the leaders of the king of Babylon came and sat down where it is called the Middle Gate. Those were Nergal-sarezer, Samgar-nebo and Sarsekim who was in charge of the people working in the home of the king, and another Nergal-sarezer together with all the other leaders of the king of Babylon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When they have already entered Jerusalem, the officials of the king of Babilonia sat at the Middle Gate. They were Nergal Sharezer whose-from Samgar, Nebo Sarsekim a leading official, and another Nergal Sharezer also a high official, and the other officials of the king of Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then all the officers of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the Middle Gate to decide what they would do to the city. They included Nergal-Sharezer from Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim who was one of the chief army officers, another Nergal-Sharezer, the king’s advisor, and many other officials.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 39:4:

• Kupsabiny: “When Zedekiah and all his soldiers saw those things happening, they sneaked out in the night through the garden of the palace at a gate where two walls met and set out towards the valley of the river of Jordan.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When King Zedekia and all his soldiers saw this they fled. They left the city by night, and they passed-through there in the garden of the king, at the gate between two the stone-walls, and they went to the Valley of Jordan.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “When King Zedekiah and all his soldiers realized that the army of Babylonia had broken into the city, they fled. They waited until it was dark. Then they went out of the city through the king’s garden, through the gate that was between the two walls. Then they started running toward the Jordan River Valley.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 39:5:

• Kupsabiny: “But the soldiers of the Babylonians pursued them until they caught Zedekiah in the plain of Jericho. And when he was captured (they) took (him) to Riblah in the land of Hamath where Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon was. Then/There he passed sentence on Zedekiah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But the soldiers of Babilonia chased them, and they were caught at the valley of Jerico. They captured Zedekia and brought to King Nebuchadnezzar to Ribla in the land of Hamat, and there Nebuchadnezzar sentenced him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But the soldiers from Babylonia pursued the king, and they caught him on the plains near Jericho. They took him to the King of Babylon, who was at Riblah town in the Hamath region. There the king of Babylon told his soldiers what they should do to punish Zedekiah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 39:6:

• Kupsabiny: “The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah while their father watched and he also killed all the leaders of Judah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “There in Ribla, Nebuchadnezzar have had-killed the sons of Zedekia before his very own eyes/[lit. in-front-of him]. He also have had-killed all the officials/leaders of Juda.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They forced Zedekiah to watch while they killed his sons and all the officials from Judah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)