Jeremiah 39:2

39:2 It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. ¹  On that day they broke through the city walls.

Jeremiah 52:6

52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month ²  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ³  had no food.

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ⁴  day of the fifth month, ⁵  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁶  who served ⁷  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

¹ sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

² sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

³ tn Heb “the people of the land.”

³ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

⁴ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 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.

⁶ tn Heb “stood before.”