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
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 The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.
2 tn Heb “the people of the land.”
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
5 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
5 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
6 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
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.