2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside 1  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. 2 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh 3  day of the fifth month, 4  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 5  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 6 

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 7  day of the twelfth month, 8  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 9  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 10  from prison.

1 tn Or “against.”

2 sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

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

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

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

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

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

7 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

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