That is, his generals. The occasion was Nebuchadnezzar’s second attack on Jerusalem. The first was in 605 B.C., the third year of Jehoiakim (Dan. 1:1).
At that time.
Nebuchadnezzar began his next campaign against Judah in the month of Kislev (Dec. 598-Jan. 597 B.C.), according to the Babylonian Chronicle.