2 Kings 20:6

20:6 I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” 1 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh 2  day of the fifth month, 3  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 4  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 5 

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 6  day of the twelfth month, 7  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 8  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 9  from prison.

1 tn Heb “for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”

2 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

3 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

4 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

5 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

3 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

4 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

5 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

6 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.